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...Mental Health. In three areas, each embracing three counties, the state has installed a "community mental-health consultant" in the office of a county health department. Their job is to serve as counselors, to spot the client who is so disturbed that he should become a patient, and to refer him elsewhere for prompt treatment. But in practice, virtually every client has been so relieved by talking things out with his consultant (and sometimes his minister as well) that an imminent crack-up has apparently been averted. For those with more severe upsets, scattered over New Mexico's sparsely...
...refer to Premier Fanfani and his aides [Feb. 22 | as "bassotti" (dachshunds) for their shortness. Though not a Fanfani fan, I object to such a derisive classification...
...average, bright men are short, but I wouldn't refer to Caesar, Bonaparte, Mozart or Charlie Chaplin as bassotti. The only very tall bright men I can think of at the moment are President Lincoln, President Kennedy, De Gaulle and Dr. Clement A. Finch, world famous hematologist of Seattle, Washington...
...benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans" (homemaking), "Nuts and Sluts'' (abnormal personality), "Cokes and Smokes" (religion), ''Cowboys and Indians" (history of the West), or "Mint Juleps" (history of the South...
...delighted with the well-deserved recognition you have conferred on Minoru Yamasaki [Jan. 18], one of the greatest architects of our age. We are particularly pleased that we were "ahead of time" when we asked Yama in 1959 to design the "gracefully vaulted synagogue" you refer...