Nation: SANE--and Others

Whenever their babies come down with the colic or break out in bumps, thousands of U.S. mothers turn to the unworried advice of Dr. Benjamin Spock. Yet Dr. Spock has his own anxieties, and last week they were written all over his kindly face as he appeared, with a little girl, in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. Said the ad written by Spock: "I am worried. Not so much about the effect of past tests but at the prospect of endless future ones. As the tests multiply, so will the...

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