Books: Tranquilizers in Print

STAY ALIVE ALL YOUR LIFE (300 pp.)—Norman Vincent Peale—Prentice-HalI ($3.95).

A Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis."

To psycho-sclerotics everywhere, the book news of the year is that the analgesic of Norman...

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