Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midget to bat against the Detroit Tigers,* he also performed some praiseworthy services for the game. He broke the color barrier in the American League by hiring Outfielder Larry Doby in 1947, set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 is still an American League mark) and led both the Indians and the White Sox to pennants. Such Veeck innovations as exploding scoreboards and relief pitchers riding in from the bullpen on golf carts are now standard...
Outfielder Paul Blair is also among the league's top ten batters, and First Baseman Boog Powell is second in RBls with 70. All that supporting power should make the Orioles a shoo-in for the American League playoffs. Still, Baltimore's oft-burned fans can be pardoned for glancing over their shoulders occasionally and wondering whether things will look as good come October as they do in July...
...Bass the image is a true "sign from God." She believes now that it explains a mysterious "revelation" she had some 35 years ago, when, one day in prayer, she saw "hundreds of saved people coming toward me." Saved or not, at week's end they were still coming...
Firmly Established. Most mental-health experts still need to be convinced. For one thing, the exhaustive follow-up studies required to assess the possible limitations of behavioral therapy are just beginning. Psychiatrists wonder how thorough and long-lasting any behavioral treatment-reinforcement or otherwise-can be. To them, "sick" or unusual behavior is a sign of underlying psychosis; no matter how many external symptoms are extinguished, they fear that the deeper problem will keep rising to the surface. Reinforcement experts answer that they have yet to see such "symptom substitution" in their patients...
...Still, the practical results are hard to dismiss, and the behavioristic approach has become a sustained, potent challenge to the dominance of Freudian-influenced psychiatry. Azrin contends that "the promise that these techniques have shown in the mental hospital justifies their being tried out in every other area." In his more whimsical moments, Azrin likes to think that behavior therapy will eventually follow the paradigm of progress once proposed by Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the first successful electric automobile self-starter. "First they tell you you're wrong, and they can prove it," said Kettering. "Then they tell...