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...Reasons Why. "Fear of flying is not a laughing matter," says San Francisco Psychiatrist Edwin F. Alston. "It can involve clear physical suffering-nauseous stomach, sweating, trembling, and sometimes inability to move." In treating patients, Dr. Alston has found that the causes go far beyond the experience of a particularly rough flight. "It has always been a multiple thing," he says. For a few, the fear may result from a death in the family resulting from an air crash. For others, the airplane may represent separation-from both the ground and loved ones. Deep feelings of guilt often play...
Young children have a maddening way of getting into bottles of potentially lethal medicines and household products. Last year, despite countless stomach pumpings in hospital emergency rooms, more than 350 tots died as a result of this deadly tendency. Such fatalities may soon be greatly reduced, thanks to a new container that has proved itself relatively impregnable in youthful hands...
...junior Shaw, who vowed at the beginning of the year that he wouldn't shave his heard until he lost, ran a steady race near the head of the pack. Complaining of stomach cramps, however, he had to struggle at the end to hold seventh place ahead of two Yale men, Tom Yunick and Steve Bittner...
...Food and Drug Administration almost 20 years to end U.S. sales of a phony cancer medicine produced by self-styled "Dr." Harry Hoxsey in Texas. The federal judge presiding over the case was taking the preparation himself to prevent recurrence of what he thought was cancer of the stomach. (It wasn't.) Now, said Dorman, a former nurse of Hoxsey's is making and selling the brew in Mexico...
...second of the new boys pulled in his stomach, put his hands on his hips, and looked back and forth from the clock over the pool to Jennifer, who was swimming laps. When a slim girl in a pink bikini emerged from the Ladies' locker room and slipped quietly into the water, the boy in the white suit abandoned his romantic look and began a fast crawl down the middle of the pool. The third boy, unable to find a secure place for his watch and wallet, held them self-consciously in one hand and, taking off his glasses which...