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...XMAS SPIRIT, COUNSELING 5?, advertises a sign on a booth outside the Southern California Counseling Center in Los Angeles. Below it is a second inscription: "The psychiatrist is in." He really is: psychiatrist Benjamin Weininger is dispensing advice from the booth at a nickel per patient...
Since the booth was set up last month, Weininger has been seeing two dozen patients a day. "I've been listening to everything from broken love affairs to conflicts with parents," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter. "Some people are surprised that they can see their problems in a new light so quickly." Among his patients was a bearded youth who had "a problem communicating with people," especially at parties. "Maybe you're trying too hard," Weininger counseled. "The idea is just to be with people." Another man was contemplating suicide because his wife had left...
...back. "When I count to four, Skip will count off the first number." One...two...three...On four, Van Winkle struck a chord on his electric organ, Teegarden spun a roll on his drums, and away they went into Dancing in the Street. Up in the engineer's booth, a spectator, Rock Guitarist Mike Bruce, fell under Damon's spell and slid off a stool to the floor. A bystander caught Bruce's head inches from the tile floor...
...OWEN H. BOOTH Tucson...
...Baptist, Methodist town." In the mid-'60s he was kicked out of the Congress of Racial Equality because he did not believe in its nonviolent strategy. He has frequently acted alone, and once admitted to friends that he could hold all of his meetings in a telephone booth...