Word: weitzman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elliot Weitzman and his colleagues at New York City's Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center may have welcome news for those night owls. By a technique they call chronotherapy, they have managed to help King and six other victims of this disorder. The feat, says Weitzman, was accomplished not with drugs but by resetting internal clocks...
...Weitzman explains it, for these people the hands of the clocks can best be moved forward, not backward. Accordingly, four night people were placed in isolated rooms without clocks, phones or radios to provide the time. The doctors kept moving their patients' bedtimes ahead, three hours a day. (Three patients, including King, tried the test at home, pledging to retire on schedule.) The chronotherapy lasted a week, until the night folks had been worked around the clock to a reasonable bedtime. In King's case, that meant midnight...
MARRIED. Henry ("The Fonz") Winkler, 32, swaggering star of television's nostalgic series Happy Days and Hollywood screen actor (Heroes, The One and Only); and Stacey Weitzman, 30, a Los Angeles fashion publicist; in the Manhattan synagogue where he became a bar mitzvah...
...prospective employer, a circus performer named Louis Weitzman, agreed to try the boy out. He led him up a ladder to a platform 40 ft. in the air. "Just walk behind me," said Weitzman as he started out on the high wire, "and when I bend a little, you get up and do a handstand on my shoulders." Karl Wallenda looked down. "I can't," he said. "You do it," said Weitzman, "or I'll shake you off the wire...
...Karl Wallenda did a handstand on Weitzman's shoulders. So Karl Wallenda became a high-wire stunt man. Probably it was in his blood all along. His father was a catcher in a wandering troupe of aerialists; his mother performed with the troupe too. But when Wallenda first began performing his own high-wire act, he soon showed the daring that was to make him the greatest of his strange breed. He not only walked the wire but rode a bicycle on it- with his brother Herman on his shoulders. He invented an act that had never before been...