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Beside such rude behavioral correlations, rarefied debate about whether suicide is justified or not, as well as neo-Stoical huffing about the inalienable right of alienated man to do himself in, seems frivolous. As these books show, suicidology at first seems an almost abstract subject full of piquant and possibly significant details. Dentists, we learn, lead all professions in killing themselves-followed closely by psychiatrists. Women try suicide three times as often as men but fail much more often. April and May, not the dead of winter, are the crudest months; Hungary, not Sweden, has the world's highest...
...since he found himself in the unfamiliar position of being unable to talk out problems, as he had done at the Law School, when faced with criticism of his administrative decisions. He was quick to realize that the shift from Law School dean to Harvard President encompassed a rude transition from conviviality to impersonality...
...tenant family in a Harvard-owned building received a rather rude surprise Monday afternoon. While baby-sitting for their one-year-old daughter in their basement apartment, Mimi and William Nixon noticed that plaster was starting to fall from their ceiling. Climbing upstairs, the Nixons discovered that a brigade of Cambridge Fire Department trainees was busily hacking away at the second and third floors of the building...
...Congressman, investor or shipper who might have thought that the Government solved U.S. railroads' financial problems a year ago, when it took over the operation of most passenger trains, has been getting a rude awakening. Congress is now studying six major bills that would extend further help, and industry spokesmen are warning that the legislators must race in order to rescue the nation's rail system from a threatened collapse. They do not seem to be crying wolf; the railroads' plight is bad enough to have won the sympathy of their chief competitors. Truck lines and many...
Fireside Chat. For Squier, it was a rude awakening. If anyone deserved the credit for launching Muskie as the presidential front runner, he did. A TV producer who worked for the Humphrey campaign in 1968, he staged the 1970 election-eve TV appearance in which Muskie clobbered Nixon in the image ratings. After viewers got a glimpse of the strident, gesticulating President, they were soothed by the sight of Muskie calmly sitting in a home in Maine. While the fire crackled in the background, he made a plea for reasonableness in fatherly tones. All that was lacking in the scene...