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...driven, compulsive," he remembers. "I yelled at people. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I started to vomit, and it was as if my body were exploding and everything inside were trying to get out, including my brain." Two and a half years with a shrink put his cerebrum where it belonged, and even when Jeannie folded, he kept busy with TV pilots and movies. In the lean years that followed he still earned more than $150,000, enough, as his mother says, to allow him to be "a grand pasha" around the house...
...chairman of New York's Municipal Assistance Corporation, advocates creation of a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with $5 billion for loans to failing cities like New York or slumping companies like Lockheed or Chrysler. Management Expert Peter Drucker wants to accelerate the change to computer-age companies and shrink traditional blue-collar employment...
...cars. GM, which stood to lose the most since it had the strongest lineup of big cars, attacked the problem forthrightly. In July 1972, well before any shortages of oil, the company had set up an energy task force. Less than a year later it decided to shrink its car line, beginning with full-size models in the 1977 model-year, and to build new compacts like the Chevrolet Citation that would be introduced starting...
...demand for show-biz therapy? "The extended family of 30 or 40 years ago used to deal with these things," says Smith. "The housewife of several years ago had 30 relatives or friends she could turn to. Now she's got the radio shrink." Grant thinks that Southern Californians need a lot of help. "There is a profound sense of alienation and loneliness here, and few traditional guidelines for behavior. I don't have any grand solutions, just my own idiosyncratic ones...
...generation's ultimate obloquy: "You're so out of touch with your own feelings." Albert tries to unload some of his burdens upon his psychiatrist, a lulu named Nederlander ("I'm turning the wheel over to you, Doc"), but the best ad vice the shrink can offer is, "Tonight, eat Chinese...