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Every U.S. President in recent years has dutifully urged more strenuous efforts to prevent and treat mental illness. But to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose own oldest sister, Rosemary, is mentally retarded, the problem is particularly poignant. Last week he sent Congress the first presidential message in history that dealt solely with the twin blights of mental illness and mental retardation...
...being.' Canetti has small patience for those who think man's basic instinct is self-preservation. Man is not a "statue," writes Canetti, "with one hand reaching for food and with the other fending off its enemies. His way of procuring his prey is cunning, bloodthirsty and strenuous. He does not mildly defend himself but attacks his enemies as he senses them in the distance; his weapons of attack are far better developed than his weapons of defense...
...weekly Saturday workout in the Pentagon gym with his three sons. (He also has two daughters, giving him a total of seven exemptions on his income tax.) Only five pounds over his college fighting weight. Caplin often lunches on Metrecal at his desk, always bends and stretches through a strenuous course of calisthenics no matter how late he gets home. "I lie in bed and count for him." says Ruth. "It does me a lot of good...
Ironically, Rahner at the moment is in no position to assist in this theological task. Last July, despite strenuous objections from his friends in the Austrian and German hierarchies, the Holy Office ordered him to submit all future writings for clearance by his Jesuit superiors in Rome. Since then, Rahner has written no new theological work; friends say that he will not speak out again until the ban is lifted...
Outside his own specialty, Dr. Mead criticizes doctors for continuing to impose "prolonged inertia" on patients with an arterial shutdown in a leg, and on victims of rheumatic fever. Strenuous athletics, he notes, are even recommended for patients with active tuberculosis, provided they are also getting drug treatment. Excessive rest, he concludes, is the same fraudulent fad it always...