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...Manhattan's Academy of Religion and Mental Health, the breakdown of a minister's wife is most often caused by pressure to conform. "This is compounded by her own guilts and anxieties-guilt over her own shortcomings and her earlier history. Marrying a minister doesn't wipe out either her past or her thoughts." In the view of a Boston psychiatrist, ministers' wives suffer most from a feeling of "abandonment." Several of his patients are up to their ears in church work, using it as a substitute for a personal need that is not fulfilled...
...Protestant monks! To wipe out completely the small step forward taken by the Reformation, the only thing left to do will be to give them strings beads and have them mutter meaningless prayers...
...most detested Congressmen: Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum, who, with Michigan's Republican Robert P. Griffin, authored last session's Teamster-haltering labor bill. In Lawrenceville, Ga., Landrum's primary opponent, F. Quill Sammon Jr., denied knowledge of Hoffa's grand offer. Wailed Sammon, trying to wipe off the kiss of death: "If Hoffa does want to help me, that's a heck of a way for him to do it, by saying...
...speed Lockheed's profit recovery.* For the past six weeks, Lockheed has been operating profitably, hopes to cut its overall loss to $45 million by year's end. With a tax rebate and an estimated $30 million in earnings over the next 18 months, Lockheed expects to wipe out the loss completely, be on a moneymaking basis...
...imitation actress should be dragged by the hair to see Miss Dailey," wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express. "She sweats love, breathes hate, weeps desire." The Times catalogued her as "a fully-fledged, Swinburnian femme fatale." Wrote the Daily Mail's Robert Muller: "The performance will wipe the smirk off the faces of those who scoff at the school of psychological interpretation known as the Method. It is theatrical magic...