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Lisa has achieved this distinction by scrambling harder than six monkeys peeling the same banana. One night last week, she taped interviews with 1) Adlai Stevenson, 2) the suddenly unemployed employees at the New York Mirror, and 3) Dr. Benjamin Spock-all within three hours, dragging mobile cameramen behind her by their sagging tongues. Next day she trapped the Russian Cosmonauts under the stars at Hayden Planetarium...
After nine years of monthly articles in the Ladies' Home Journal, the U.S. czar of child care, Dr. Benjamin Spock, 60, will start changing diapers this month for Redbook. His reason for leaving the Journal, he says, was "a drastic change in policy and staff last spring." Redbook's editors delightedly welcomed their new parent pacifier by putting him on the cover, and the doctor recalled his own babe-in-arms days. "Our parents were strict but very close to us," he wrote. So what had Mom, now 86, thought of her son's baby bible, which...
Most notable is the medical school (one prof: Dr. Spock, the famed pediatrician), where all subjects are correlated and taught together; every student is apprenticed to a family to learn the bedside manner. Western Reserve is biggest in science, has 450 research projects, spent $3,000,000 on a new lab just to lure two star biologists from Cornell. Also thriving: the school of library science, an automation-aimed academy specializing in the new arts of "information retrieval...
...Special Way. The expected August addition to the White House family was much on the President's mind last week. Bestselling Baby Doctor Benjamin Spock was among the guests at dinner for the Grand Duchess. And when Kennedy stood in for Jackie as host at a brunch for congressional wives, he assured them that Jackie, too, "is engaged in increasing the gross national product in her own special way." As for Jackie, she had flown to New York, where she paid a surprise visit to the Metropolitan Opera House to see a performance by London's Royal Ballet...
...culture in history has been so child-centered as the Spock-marked society of contemporary America, few have been so careless of their children as that of medieval Europe. How Western man moved from then to now is the subject of this rich piece of French scholarship by Social Historian Philippe Aries...