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...Today, statements such as 'We know no more about human psychology and politics than Aristotle did' mainly express the ignorance of those who utter them." So contend Harvard Government Professor Karl Deutsch, University of Michigan Biophysicist John Platt and Political Scientist Dieter Senghaas of Goethe University in Frankfurt. The three scholars recently completed a major study of creative achievements in the social sciences, which they summarized in Science magazine. Countering the lingering academic disdain for behavioral studies as either imprecise esoterica or common sense festooned with jargon, the authors make a convincing case that the breakthroughs in social...
Collaborating with Deutsch were John R. Platt of Michigan, a biophysicist, and Dieter Senghaas, a political scientist at Goethe University in Frankfort, Germany...
Married. Christine Keeler, 28, party girl who rose to notoriety in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and Anthony Platt, 31, a metal manufacturing company director; she for the second time; in London...
...with the old. To end this segregation, which is particularly acute in suburban living, Bronfenbrenner and others recommend planning by architects for community clusters where children, their parents and the elderly can intermingle, each group bringing its experience, knowledge and support to the other. University of Michigan's John Platt visualizes clusters he calls "childcare communities" which resemble communes: in addition to enlarged recreational and shopping facil ities, they would include centralized schoolrooms, dining rooms (for both adults and children) and kitchens...
Says Dr. John Platt, associate director of the University of Michigan's Mental Health Research Institute: "All sorts of roles now have to be played by the husband and wife, whereas in the older, extended family they had all sorts of help?psychological support, financial advice, and so on. The pressures of these multiple roles are partially responsible for the high rates of divorce, alcoholism, tranquilizers...