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...Cairo when Sister Emmanuelle, 74, awakens in her hut with its dirt floor and gaping hole in the roof. After washing in a bucket, she sets out on a two-mile walk to attend Mass at the nearest church. She is clad in a white smock and a necklace
...Ruth J. Smock Portland...
Like them, most of the crowd seemed more purposeful than defiant. Katherine Wedel, 17, left a New York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE...
...disappointed during their careers." Compounding the problem is the feeling of omnipotence that many doctors develop after they save their first lives. Later on, this can make it difficult for them to admit they need help. "They believe themselves to be omnipotent," says Litman, "semi-deities in a white smock." Finally, doctors have easy access to drugs. Says Psychologist Louis Wekstein of Boston's Tufts University: "Psychotherapy is almost a last resort. They've exhausted their own knowledge and used every strategy-such as minor tranquilizers and alcohol...
...Smock said the council hopes to obtain undergraduate and graduate scholarships for 30 Black South Africans. IIE sponsors...