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Show INIELL1BEKGE CONTINUED mm list "Older, af:d lliGIBICE violent a claims Dr. Roger Tredgold, British man. So on specialist medicine. better-educat- ed workers have the highest psychological Because people are bored in their jobs and bereft proportion with theHe blues," points Sheppard asserts. out the more a person is educated, the higher his life When and job aspirations. such a person is of a satisfying outlet for their energy, they seek other outlets in sex, drugs', and violence. Thats what Tredgold DR. JACK LIEBERMAN OIMIA TCST cos sgs;i the Royal Society of Health does s?- Congress. - run in families? Emphysema is a puffy condition caused hy air in the lungs or tissue of the body. answer, according to Dr. Jack Lieberman, a The director of respiratory diseases at the City of Hope located in Duarte, Calif., is that approxi- mately one out of every 20 people is born with a genetic defect producing a lower-than-nor- mal a substance called Alpha-- I seem predisposed to develop emphysema if they are exposed to lung irritants such as smoke or smog. Dr. Lieberman is now developing a simple, inex- pensive, accurate test to identify those individuals who have inherited a "single dose" deficiency from one parent or a "double dose" from two. Such a test will consti- tute a major advance in disease prevention, since to alert it will serve who those people suffer from AAT deficiency, and hopefully keep them away from lung irritants. Lieberman will describe his test for inherited to emphysema susceptibility some time next January at a meeting of clinical researchers to be held in Carmel, Calif. Several pharmaceutical houses are already "in on the play," since they envision a continuing market for the test which reportedly can be performed in the doctors office. that fast 10 "Work and its satisfache explained, have become a lesser part of the tions," accepted pattern of and simple. It is life. at all for a a great train if pittance robbery or less spectacular robberies of a bank or a work "Why stock exchange can gain one so much more so quickly? "More people are choosing violence and justifying it," he continued. "More vicious circles are oping from fear, devel- self-intere- st, and even level of Antitrypsin (AAT). These individuals recently told self-defens- e." Dr. Tredgold believes that the violence of our industrial age is potentially more dangerous to mankind than were the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages or the plague. In this country, labor management experts believe that too many workers regard their jobs as "deadend, dull, boring, and degrading." Countless sur- veys indicate that job dissatisfaction plays Knute Rockne, possibly Notre Dames greatest football coach, used to say: "This job of coaching football is not too bad. When we win the whole world loves us. And when we lose, I can always say were building character." The traditional concept which holds that sport builds character participants is among now to question. Two its open psychologists, letes, some 15,000 ath- members of high school, college, and fessional frustration, bills, and are pro- teams over a period of eight years. In a recent issue of "Psychology Today" they report that they found little or nothing to sup- port the belief that sport builds character. "Athletic competition has no more beneficial effects than intense endeavor in any other field," they say. anger, discontent born. These are the qualities, according to Dr. Tredgold, which breed violence. "Horatio Alger success in sport or elsewhere comes only to those who already are mentally resilient and strong." Successful athletes, the psychologists maintain, are ambitious, well-organiz- ed, and competitive to begin with. goal-orient- ed, "The cultural revolu"has tion," they report, penetrated the last stronghold of the American myth, the locker room. Young having scaled new consciousness, now challenge a article of faith: the belief that competition athletes, levels of long-standi- Drs. Bruce Ogilvie and Thomas Tutko of San Jose (Calif.) State College, tested pigeonholed into a meaningless job which he must keep in order to pay the ng has intrinsic value. Athletes for the most part go into sports self- ishly, either for money, fame, or enjoyment. The great emphasis is no longer on winning for dear old Yale, Harvard or Sewanee, and this change depresses many coaches, who, accord- ing to Ogilvie and Tutko, "believe that a truly good athlete is also by defincleaition, a red-blood- ed, nliving, truth-tellin- g prepared patriot." a large role in the current national wave of discon- tent. Can anything be .done? Dr. Robert Ford, manpower specialist for American Telephone calls for & Telegraph, a revolution in job enrichment. Ford believes that workers should be liberated from meaningless, fragmented, assemblyline jobs and assigned tasks which confer a sense of pride and accomplish- ment. Dr. Harold Sheppard, a social scientist with the Upjohn Institute, declares, "There is a prevalent feeling that something has gone wrong for many lower-middle-cl- ass Americans, workers with the blues. PARADE NOVEMBER 21. |