Spock, Dr. Benjamin (1903-1998)
By introducing new child-rearing techniques that contradicted those practiced for hundreds of years, pediatrician Dr. Benjamin McLane Spock changed the way several gene...
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Spock, Benjamin Mclane(1903-)
American pediatrician, psychiatrist, and author.
In a controversial book that sold more than 30 million copies in the three decades following its publication in 1946, ped...
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Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), pediatrician and political activist, was most noted for his authorship of Baby and Child Care, which significantly changed predominant attitudes toward the raising of infan...
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In a controversial book that sold more than 30 million copies in the three decades following its publication in 1946, pediatrician Benjamin Spock changed the way American parents raised their babies. ...
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Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, has died at 96.Rabinowitz di...
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American clergyman and civil rights activist (b. June 1, 1924,
New York, N.Y.
—d. April 12, 2006, Strafford,
Vt.
), achieved national prominence as the chaplain (1958–75) at Yale Univ...
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Victor RabinowitzNEW YORK (AP) — Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kat...
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The Fun House, its floor tilted at an 18-degree angle, is instantly disorienting. Most people who enter lean against the walls to escape its dizzying clutches.Not 5-year-old Gabrielle Cutrona. She ...
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"You can't be sure of how the trial will go," said longtime Manhattan civil-rights attorney Ramsey Clark, wagging a long, slender forefinger. "But you could say that if it's properly done, it will ...
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