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...enormous burdens of the presidency? Past U.S. Presidents have had their emotional problems: John Adams had several nervous breakdowns, Franklin Pierce was an alcoholic, Abraham Lincoln had recurring periods of near-suicidal depression, Rutherford Hayes as a young man wandered about the streets of Sandusky, Ohio, weeping uncontrollably. Lesser officials have also been afflicted. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal committed suicide in 1949 while hospitalized for involutional melancholia. Alabama Governor George Wallace, who announced last week that he would not seek a third-party nomination this year, still receives a 10% disability check from the Veterans Administration because of "psychoneurosis...
...lower levels, however, in about 35 states, where McGovern's superb organizations blitzed delegate caucuses and primary elections. The McGovern staff is trying to bring local candidates and professional politicians into his cause and will offer cooperative candidates the aid of this volunteer pool in their campaigns for lesser offices. The young enthusiasts will readily work with the regular Democratic organizations, Campaign Manager Gary Hart says, if they are wanted -and they will move in anyway even if they are not (see box, page 10). He concedes, however, that they are not tough enough to contend with the outright...
...Gerald Lesser, Bigelow Professor of Education and Development and chairman of CTW's board of advisors, said the Center will formalize a collaboration which has existed between many Harvard faculty and students and CTW since the Workshop's inception...
...Lesser said the Center presently plans to include four staff members, six to 12 faculty members, seven graduate students and two undergraduates...
...Lesser said research will explore practical questions--such as what types of visual materials appeal to children, hold their attention and teach them effectively--and more theoretical areas--such as the mechanisms involved when youngsters imitate the behavior of TV characters...