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When trouble arises not from relationships with people but from such fears as claustrophobia, Wolpe urges his patients to learn to relax. First, however, the patient is reassured: "You are not mentally ill, and there is no danger of your going insane." Then he is questioned about the situations that trigger his anxiety, and the triggers are ranked according to intensity. After the sufferer has been taught to relax completely-through muscular exercises -he is asked to imagine the least frightening trigger: in a person who fears death, it may be the sight of an ambulance. If he becomes frightened...
Satchel for a Solo. By Frank's account, Hugh Downs, host of the Today show, was indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte...
...When he allows himself to relax, as he did at Treetops, Agnew has occasionally displayed more charm and wit than he is given credit for. "A finesse that the United Nations would be proud of," he observed of the various animals taking turns at a salt lick...
...partly this tension-relieving aspect of alpha that makes brain-wave control potentially useful in psychiatry. For example, scientists hope they can help claustrophobics by training them to produce alpha and thus relax in enclosed spaces. In Beaumont, Texas, the Angie Nall School for problem children has experimented with alpha training to relax stutterers and as a substitute for tranquilizers in hyperactive youngsters. At the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kans., Psychologist Elmer Green is training subjects not to raise but to lower their alpha while increasing theta. In a low-alpha, high-theta state, Green explains, deeply buried unconscious problems...
...Labor Party won a one-vote majority in the island's Parliament. Malta has long been the unsinkable aircraft carrier of the British Mediterranean defense system, but Labor Party Leader Dom Mintoff won the election partly by promising the island's 320,000 inhabitants that he would relax this link to the West. The Russians do not really need another naval base, but they may find irresistible the idea of just showing the red flag on an island that was long a NATO bastion and won Britain's George Cross for heroism in World...