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During his three-week ordeal, Roman Catholic Father John Hogan of Gary, Ind., lost six pounds, and "the tension was so high that I suddenly felt like crying when I was driving home." Mrs. Robert Stack, wife of the television actor, says: "You are almost hypnotized -and your mind goes blank. It's like being in a torture chamber." The horrifying experience Father Hogan and Mrs. Stack endured was distinctly beneficial: the Berlitz Schools' "Total Immersion" course, which aims to give its students a foreign-language fluency and vocabulary of 1,600 words a week...
...between people. It represents a broken-down relationship, and the way to mend it is to involve the schizophrenic in a relationship that means something to him." Dr. Laing, 38, does not claim to have originated this idea. It traces back to the brilliant American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), whose theories have been neglected partly because he wrote in obscure jargon. Sullivan blamed emotional problems on difficulties in "interpersonal relationships," then defined "a person" not as a person in the usual sense but as a social concept. Starting from that, Dr. Laing sees the schizophrenic as an individual...
THESE earlier explorations, plus the editors' own experiences and intuitions about the young (everyone has plenty of those), plus a foot-high stack of reports from correspondents all over the world, formed the raw material for this week's cover story, which was written by Robert Jones and edited by Michael Demarest. The researchers were Harriet Heck and Jane Pett...
...students at any other boarding school -- including playing practical jokes. One night, a group of boys in a dormitory set up a trap for one of their mates who had gotten out of bed to use the bathroom. While he was out, the boys built a precariously high stack of soda bottles in the entrance of the room. The boy returned, his hand gliding against the wall for guidance; he crashed into the bottles and woke up everyone in the dorm...
...cameras were rolling, and sponsored the U.S. premiere. The producers for their part contributed a big budget and a vast cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris, Alain Delon, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Tony Perkins, Simone Signoret, Robert Stack, Orson Welles...