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...fact, during the 1960s and early '70s, many psychiatrists put some distance between themselves and organized medicine, identifying more with psychologists, sociologists and other social scientists than with their fellow doctors. Indeed psychiatry seemed almost ashamed of its medical origins, preferring to see itself as a softer, almost humanistic discipline. Along with this greening of psychiatry, the myth developed that it might be able to cure such serious social illnesses as drug abuse, delinquency and crime. Many psychiatrists even wondered why specialists of the human mind had to go to medical school at all. But all that has changed...
...often-frustrating four-year Crimson career, Havens tasted both glory and defeat. After an outstanding freshman year on the '75-'76 national title team, Havens met with some bad luck when the high priests of collegiate racqueteering decided to change the composition of the official squash ball. The new softer spheroid left the brawny Havens's playing style obsolete and he became, as assistant squash coach and former Crimson captain Mark Panarese remarked, "a dinosaur...
...Crimson mentor Dave Fish explained yesterday, the new kind of ball is softer and threw Havens off his usually devastating power-hitting playing style. "Havens had some tough losses last year as a result," Fish added, "but I think he's back on his game this time around...
Life went on. The world began to spin again. 1968 closed quietly in comparison, and gave way to the softer tremors...
...assailing big wage boosts, was ordered to shut up. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council meeting in Chicago that henceforth any Administration comments on labor negotiations will be coordinated by a five-man committee on which Bosworth will have only one voice. Translation: less, and softer, jawboning. As a substitute, Marshall is talking up Government-labor-management committees that would study ways of taming costs and prices in specific industries...