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...first caller of the day is not as disturbed as most. Bob, 41, is worried about "overtalking" and not listening to what others say. Psychologist Toni Grant answers soothingly: You are a lonely man trying to force intimacy from friends. Wouldn't it be better to stop buttonholing people and try to be more relaxed and playful? Says Bob: "You've just pulled up a shade...
...Psychologist Grant, this is another easy start for the Dr. Toni Grant Program, her daily talk show at KABC, Los Angeles. Over the next four hours, she will give on-the-spot advice to a stream of troubled callers-child abusers, rapists, baffled homosexuals, wife beaters and "pre-orgasmic" women. "It's a soap opera that educates," says Grant, 38, who studied at Vassar and Harvard and got a Ph.D. from Syracuse. It is also a vast financial success that has made Grant a well-paid star ("a median five-figure" salary) and draws an audience...
...union representatives in 1976 agreed to Volkswagen's decision to build assembly plants in the U.S. after they were convinced it would ensure the firm's survival and their own jobs in the long run, even though it meant limited union jobs at home. Says VW Chairman Toni Schmucker: "I don't claim to tell other people how to run their companies. But in my time here at Volkswagen, in the atmosphere of this company, codetermination has worked...
Divided between his American birth and his Italian heritage during World War II, Ussia nevertheless remained in Italy to study during the war. Eventually earning doctorates in electrical and mechanical engineering from the University of Naples, he and his Neopolitan wife, Toni, moved back to the United States in 1958 "for better professional opportunities...
Other relatives of hostages were tempted to follow her to Tehran, though several had misgivings about making the trip. Said Toni Sickmann, of Krakow, Mo., mother of Marine Sergeant Rodney Sickmann: "I want to see him. But I don't want him to see us break down because that would break him down too." A different issue worried Paul Keough, of Sherborn, Mass., whose brother William, superintendent of the American School in Pakistan, had been visiting Tehran when the embassy was seized. Paul Keough argued that the emotionally wrenching sight of relatives pleading in Tehran for permission...