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Susan was a victim of anorexia nervosa, "the starvation disease" or "Twiggy syndrome," a rare and bizarre emotional disorder that has been occurring more frequently in the past few years. Of those affected, 80% are female, mostly in their early teens. Typically they are intelligent, ambitious, middle-and upper-class girls who are perfectionists and eager to please their mothers and fathers. Suddenly they start to diet and then simply stop eating, sometimes losing 50 lbs. or so in a few months. Some, like Susan, now 21, seek treatment and manage to get back to a normal weight. Others, with...
Menial Jobs. Some of the refugees have become so lonely for Vietnamese company that they have sought to return to the camps. Others, especially those who enjoyed upper-class status in Viet Nam, have been unwilling to take menial jobs. A senior official of a volunteer agency reports that several refugees refused a position as night clerk in a hotel in Buffalo, partly because of the job's nature and partly because of the city's frigid winters. Says the official: "Not all of these people realize that, like other refugee groups in our history, they must start...
...lobby of the Loeb is festooned with those streamers and with blinking lights in honor of the theater's summer season of "four American plays." And what could be more American than a George and Ira Gershwin musical about upper-class bootlegging during Prohibition? Admittedly Oh, Kay! has a book co-authored by one of the enemy--P.G. Wodehouse--but the score should more than make up for it, with such all-American numbers as "Clap Yo' Hands," "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Maybe," and "Do, Do, Do." It was a smash hit in 1926. The Loeb's version...
Because of their fears, millions of Americans are arming themselves. "We're getting a lot of nice upper-class couples who are buying pistols," says James Bell Jr., vice president of Bell's Gun and Sport Inc. in Franklin Park, Ill. "They're even getting his-and-her guns." About 40% of Bell's clientele are female?young working women as well as elderly widows. Other weapons favored by frightened women: the old-fashioned hatpin, a tear-gas capsule, a can of oven cleaner (which contains...
...only a small coterie of close friends and advisers. The closest is Sayed Marei, 60, a wealthy landowner whose son is married to Sadat's daughter Noha. At Sadat's insistence, Marei was named head of the People's Assembly, despite vigorous protests against his staunch upper-class conservatism. Also close to Sadat is Premier Mamduh Salem, 57, a former policeman who endeared himself to the President in 1971 by arresting the then Vice President Ali Sabry, a Communist sympathizer, on charges of plotting to overthrow the President. Since then, Sadat has had a record...