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...smoke," says the grim-looking man in the Winston cigarette ad. Columbia Psychologist Stanley Schachter, 54, agrees that it is better not to ask. The Winston man-or any other heavy smoker-would probably say he smokes for pleasure, or because it calms his nerves, gives him something to do with his hands or solves his Freudian oral problems. "Almost any smoker can convince you and himself that he smokes for psychological reasons or that smoking does something positive for him-it's all very unlikely," says Schachter, a virtual chain smoker himself. "We smoke because...
...Schachter reached his conclusion after conducting a series of experiments over the past four years. Like other researchers, Schachter and his team (Brett Silverstein, Lynn Kozlowski and Deborah Perlick) found that heavy smokers, given only low-nicotine cigarettes to smoke, tried to compensate; to inhale their normal quota of nicotine, they smoked more cigarettes and puffed more frequently. Even so, some were not able to make up the difference and showed withdrawal symptoms: increased eating, irritability and poorer concentration...
...white, middle-income Forest Hills, N.Y., last week angry crowds booed the bulldozers that were breaking ground for a proposed low-income housing project that would bring numbers of blacks into the area (TIME, Nov. 29). One resident, Mrs. Ann Schachter, mother of two small schoolchildren, admits that she is embarrassed by the pickets. Still, she adds, typically enough: "I like to think of myself as a liberal, but the term doesn't seem to apply to me any more. I'm frightened." Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser, who favors the project, says of the protesters: "They are afraid...
Also found guilty yesterday were Paul Schachter, and Paul Greene, both of M.I.T. and Richard Rogers, vice-president of Local 35 of the United Hospital Workers Union. They received fines totalling...
...lawyer, Oscar Schachter, deputy director of the United Nations Legal Division, raised the question of who owns space. He suggested that all space beyond a planet's atmosphere be designated as a sort of "high seas," open to all comers under a kind of interplanetary admiralty...