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...Samuel Silverman, 62, is one psychoanalyst willing to declare that Richard Nixon's phlebitis is psychosomatic. He is aware of the pitfalls of glib, long-distance analyses of public figures. But his 30 years of research lead him to conclude that all illnesses are probably psychosomatic-the result of interaction between emotions and the body...
While analyzing patients in the late 1960s, Dr. Silverman, associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, noticed that dreams, fears and personal associations sometimes prefigured physical diseases. In one case a woman who reported a cluster of hints about a coming illness, including a dream of riding in a red car with a German shepherd, soon produced the familiar red rash of German measles...
...another case, a guilt-ridden professor unconsciously turned his eyes into "target organs" for disease by becoming a voyeur (as a relief from a bad sexual relationship with his wife) and by wishing for the death of his father, who had serious eye problems. To Dr. Silverman the predictive clues were all there, including the fact that the professor's eyes would ache badly when he read pornography or attended a sex exhibition. But his doctor missed the clues, and the professor is now blind from detached retinas in both eyes...
...musical career began much earlier, however: At the age of two she was already appearing on WOR radio's show "Uncle Bob's Rainbow Room" as Bubbles Silverman--and the nickname of Bubbles has lasted through the years among members of her family...
Senior Captain Dan Blankinger led off the meet by defeating both his opponents in the 118-lb. class. He was followed at 126 lbs. by freshman Milton Yasunaga, who pinned Coast Guard's Captain, and junior Mitchell Silverman who lost to MIT's captain...