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...Yale Daily News disclosed yesterday the removal of a six-page article on Dr. Benjamin Spock from the June issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine at the request of Yale President Kingman Brewster after it had already been set in type...
...action triggered the resignation of Rita Berkson, the associate editor of the magazine, who wrote the story on Spock. She left questioning, according to the News, "who makes editorial decisions for this magazine and with what in mind...
Playful Aggression. The move toward toy disarmament has gained an ally in Dr. Spock. In his revised edition of Baby and Child Care, published last July, Spock writes: "We should bring up the next generation of Americans with a greater respect for law and for other people's rights and sensibilities. One simple opportunity we could utilize in the first half of childhood is to show our disapproval of lawlessness and violence in television programs and in children's pistol play...
Leading war critics like Dr. Benjamin Spock lumped Soviet aggression with the U.S. role in Viet Nam. Senators McCarthy and George McGovern joined in this view, arguing that American interventions, whether in the Dominican Republic or Southeast Asia, encouraged the Russians to act and also robbed the U.S. of moral authority...
Edsel Margin III, one of the three commissioners, is, like Karl Shapiro, apocalyptic and apoplectic, but he has a well-defined target: Benjamin Spock -not the war hater, but the baby lover. Margin creatively misinterprets Dr. Spock's book Baby and Child Care as a blueprint for totally permissive child-rearing, a Communist Manifesto of the U.S. infantocracy, the cause of all the troubles from Yalta to the Yippies...