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...have been remarkably few psychological studies of the subject. This week Manhattan Psychoanalyst Harold Greenwald published a searching analysis of a group of prostitutes, their motivations and emotional problems (The Call Girl; Ballantine, $4.50). Greenwald's is a highly specialized sample from the profession's top economic stratum. Six call girls went to him for analysis; he personally interviewed ten more; and ten others (too gun-shy to face him) were interviewed by three of the call girls themselves. Because the findings were surprisingly uniform, he feels that they are valid...
...worship with Jim Crow, urged ministers to create "a social climate . . . which will encourage a free concourse of men of good will, regardless of their race, status or national origin." Too often, said the Presbyterians, churches "mistake social compatibility for Christian fellowship," and recruit members from only one stratum of society...
...impression of the figure they had enclosed. By a technique refined by Archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri. currently in charge of Pompeii excavations, the presence of the ash cavities is detected by cautiously tapping the ground with blunted pickaxes. When the excavators spot a hollow, they drill several holes through the stratum of ash, pour thinned plaster of Paris into the cavity. After allowing the plaster time to harden, workers can chip away the surrounding ash to uncover a cast of the eruption victim...
...proved to be the occipital (posterior) bone of a human skull, and its position in a stratum containing crude flint hand axes and the bones of long-extinct animals made it exciting news in anthropological circles. Marston soon found a second bone (left parietal) which fitted the first bone perfectly. The two bones were enough to give some idea of an extremely ancient kind of man who lived along the Thames about 250,000 years ago, before the last of the great glaciers crept over England...
...digging, now modestly backed by the British Museum of Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority...