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Galbraith noted that "up 'til very recently, all critics of the war were thought to be eccentrics." But now, he said, the doubts the war "go deeply into the Administration itself...
...will prevent them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children's characters to hold off opening their gifts, but many mothers cannot resist the secret satisfaction that comes from enforcing this rule." Conversely, said Berne, "very small children cross their parents up by being more interested...
...sand. An arid enclave of 72,000 African tribesmen, 8,000 Arabs and 600,000 goats, it voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose message to the French was clear...
...goes home every morning to his wife and child. Yet he really operates during the witching hours. From 11:30 p.m. until 5:30 a.m. five days a week (and until 7:30 a.m. the sixth), he is the Manhattan-based disk jockey of CBS's Music 'til Dawn, sponsored by American. Hall's silky phrasing and boudoir baritone earn him $40,500 a year, are emulated (on producer's orders) by the eight other Music 'til Dawn deejays...
Such simple programming may not be anything to write home about, but Music 'til Dawn gets a remarkable 15,000 letters of gratitude annually. This year it won a Peabody Award "for unique contribution to the culture of America...