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Cartoonists and moviemakers have long endowed bartenders with the insight of amateur psychiatrists. Now, according to a report just issued by the Milwaukee Mental Health Association, several bartenders have intentionally given up their amateur standing...
...group that gave a $50-a-plate dinner for then Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, the hard-line law-and-order man who is now the city's mayor. At Washington University in St. Louis, a periodical appeared under a catchy acronym, ACIID, for a pretentious name: a critical insight into Israel's dilemmas. But ACIID has tried to live up to its name. It has run an article by an Arab attacking Israeli expansionism, and for a while had two Arabs on its editorial board...
...Mayer, 65, only woman besides Madame Curie to win the Nobel Prize in physics; of a heart attack; in San Diego. A German-born scientist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, Mayer visualized the atomic nucleus as a series of onion-like layers of neutrons and protons. That insight was developed into the Jensen-Mayer "shell theory" of the nucleus, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with fellow physicists Hans Jensen of Heidelberg and Eugene Wigner of Princeton...
...people here have in William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader [Jan. 31], the personification of the kind of journalism that best mirrors their largely "Neanderthal" outlook. Loeb has no insight-he merely reflects the sad truth...
...Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition going back to John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath." But Coles is unique because he has illuminated that tradition with psychiatric insight...