Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder of any one of 102 Vietnamese. If the jurors, all infantry officers with combat experience themselves, decide that Calley was only partially responsible, they could reduce the charges. Conceivably, he could go free. Psychiatrists testifying for the defense have argued that Calley was mentally impaired because of combat stress; other psychiatrists called by the prosecution said he was able to premeditate murder at the time...
...considered the Senate's ranking constitutional expert, Ervin is aghast that proliferating Government data banks are being fed undigested information on merely "potential" lawbreakers. Last week Ervin heard evidence that assorted public and private agencies now keep ten to 20 dossiers on virtually every American. The dossiers often stress political activities, sexual behavior and credit records, and invite misuse by officials as well as employers...
...take patients, he is already swamped with applicants, many of them middle-aged men worried by the deadly statistics of heart-artery disease and premature deaths in the U.S. "I'm practicing preventive medicine," Cooper says. He believes that his measurements of heart action and oxygen metabolism under stress enable him to forecast with 80% accuracy whether a man is likely to have a heart attack within five years...
...prolonging good looks and vitality. It also prescribes strict precautions for the out-of-condition of any age and especially for the elderly. Instead of the twelve-minute run, the exerciser now grades himself by covering 1½ miles at whatever pace he can manage. This reduces initial stress. The time elapsed can be transformed into a fitness category by using the book's elaborate tables...
...great change-even a pleasant change-produces stress in man. That is the implication, at least, of a study recently reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr. Thomas Holmes, professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle. Furthermore, Holmes found that too many changes, coming too close together, often produce grave illness or abysmal depression...