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...Bryman School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs: "We boil out all the nonessentials. We teach only those things that help a person get and keep a good job." Bryman places about 85% of its graduates in jobs and recently became the first proprietary school to have programs accredited by the American Medical Association...
With so much seminudity on the streets, it is not surprising that beach outfits have reached a new nadir in coverage. The most daring of all are the "monokinis"-topless and almost bottomless suits that have been pared to fig-leaf proportions. Wearing them takes courage, but there is plenty of that on the beaches of southern France, where women of all ages have been going topless for at least three years. Even in the more conservative U.S., predicts Rudi Gernreich, the inventor of the shortlived topless suit of 1964, "in five years people will be swimming nude in public...
...course called Witchcraft, Magic and Astrology at New York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft, "President Nixon is risking almost everything to gain practically nothing" because the best the Administration can achieve is a "fig leaf for defeat." On the same day's Washington Post op-edit page, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak called the President's latest move "dangerously high-risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that...
...Brown, professor of Social Psychology; Don W. Fawcett '38, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy; Simon S. Kuznets, Baker Professor of Economics emeritus; George Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Reed C. Rollins, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany; Baruj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology; Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine; and Maxwell Finland '22, Minot Professor of Medicine emeritus...