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...statement six months after Husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin of Texas Southwestern Medical School deplores the "slick, smooth operation of easing the corpse out, but saying no to weeping and wailing and expressing grief and loneliness. What effect does this have on us psychologically? It may mean that we have to mourn covertly, by subterfuge-perhaps in various degrees of depression, perhaps...
...year in Scotland, say friends, also buffed down Bill Meyers' Texas twang. After Edinburgh and a three-month, 12,000-mile tour of Western Europe, Moyers entered Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. However, long before he won his bachelor of divinity degree in 1959, he was beginning to worry that he and the church were mismatched. "I wanted to invest my talents in the broadest possible river," he says, "and I felt that journalism and public affairs were wider and faster flowing than the ministry." When he graduated, despite his conviction that the ministry...
...began after dawn with a thunderous artillery barrage that sent the villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...Qualifications. Justice-designate Fortas, 55, has a remarkable set of qualifications for the high office. He helped put himself through Southwestern College in Memphis by playing the violin at dances. From Southwestern he went to Yale Law School,* where he won the coveted editorship of the Yale Law Journal. His record at Yale was so outstanding that he was appointed an assistant professor immediately after graduation in 1933, commuted from New Haven to Washington for four years on New Deal assignments before taking a full-time Government job in 1937. He became Harold Ickes' Under Secretary of the Interior...
...repair his tattered press relations by putting one of his most trusted aides in the job. While only briefly a newsman, Moyers, at 31, has worked for Johnson in one way or another for most of the last eleven years. A graduate of the University of Texas and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps before he moved into the White House...