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14 pages on

SAILING

9 small-boat

classes

family fun

on water

ocean racing

sailboat dining

sailing clothes

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AMERICA'S FAMILY MAGAZINE •

25TH YEAR OF PUBLICATION

This young man is mentally ill. He smiles because he is loved.

He is not locked up. He lives with a family. He does farm

work. He enjoys the fulfillment of a useful life. The story behind

the smile began nearly 1,000 years ago. Villagers of Gheel,

Belgium, began caring for demented people taken there in search

of a cure at a local shrine. Today, over 2,000 mentally ill

live with families in Gheel, not cured but accepted as fellow men.

A picture-and-text report on the unique town starts on page 24.

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He is nól Wekeu up.

work. He enjoys the fulfillment of a useful life. Tne sI0I )

the smile began nearly 1,000 years ago. Villagers of Gheel,

Belgium, began caring for demented people taken there in search

of a cure at a local shrine. Today, over 2,000 mentally ill

live with families in Gheel, not cured but accepted as fellow men.

A picture-and-text report on the unique town starts on page 24.

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INCORPORATING COLLIER'S

REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

Now more than 6,700,000 circulation

CONTENTS FOR MAY 23, 1961 • VOL. 25, NO. 11

THE NATIONAL SCENE

19 National Teacher of the Year: "Our Missy"

40 The Bishops vs. Kennedy, By Fletcher Knebel

75 A Family Doctor's Fight Against Socialized Medicine,

By Joseph R. Mallory, M.D.

94 Inspected Cars Mean Safer Highways, By Siler Freeman

THE WORLD

24 Report from Belgium: A Town That Cares for the Mentally 111

35 What Gheel Means to Me, By John D. J. Moore

HUMAN RELATIONS

82 Tommy Tucker: Between Boy and Man

SPORTS

55 Sailing

58 America's Favorite Racing Classes

67 A 13-Year-Old and His Tiger Cat

68 Inland Sailing Family

70 Three Sailors from Seattle

ENTERTAINMENT

102 Carol Burnett: America's Greatest Face Maker

FASHIONS

64 Sailing Clothes

FOOD

62 Sailboat Dining

HUMOR

101 Look on the Light Side

OTHER FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

50b Twin Riding Champs

54a Richard Burton: Hottest

Actor Around

12 Letters to the Editor

50 Photoquiz

Cover Photograph by Phillip Harrington

Central Edition (additional pages 50a through 50d, 54a through 540)

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"Today, the fate of individuals and nations rests upon education. In a real and immediate sense,

the teachers of America hold our future in their hands. Miss Helen (Missy) Adams is one of those to

whom we owe gratitude and support. Her dedication and warmth, her struggle against high odds

to become a teacher should stand as an example to future teachers and an inspiration to all Americans.

I want to offer my personal congratulations to Miss Adams, National Teacher of the Year."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

FOR THE STORY OF "MISSY

TEACHER OF THE YEAR

TURN THE PAGE

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THE HONOR ROLL

In its first year as magazine sponsor of the National

Teacher of the Year project, LoOk is proud to honor

the following eight teachers. They, like Helen Adams

are master teachers, and their accomplishments point

up the rich diversity of education in the United States,

Adeline E. Babbitt's 44-year career

covers the founding of kindergartens in

Hawaii and Burma, work swith UNESCO.

She teaches remedial reading at Kame-

hameha School for Girls in Honolulu.

James DeRose, science head of Marple-

Newtown Senior High School, Newtown

Square, Pa., is pioneering atomic-age

techniques of teaching, including the ex-

perimental "chemical bond approach."

Kenneth H. Easter is head of voca-

tional agriculture at Dos Palos (Calif.)

High School. His students won more

American Farmer degrees in 1960 than

those of any high school in the nation.

Ruth Lee, home-economics director at

Teague High School, Teague, Texas,

could easily qualify as the town's best-

loved citizen. She is an inspiration to

her students and their parents as well.

Mrs. Sherman Lee, Jr., a mathemat-

ics teacher, has worked to obtain scholar-

ships for her students at Marietta High

School, Marietta, Ga., and encouraged

many of them to seek a college education.

Helen Maney, chairman of citizenship-

education department at Geneva High

School, Geneva, N. Y., is active in na-

tional educational groups; also runs un-

opposed for a seat on the town council.

Mrs. Isabelle Mattson, who teaches

the fifth grade in Union City, Mich., has

created a classroom world in miniature,

where learning is an adventure and chil-

dren can develop individual aptitudes.

Brook Peterson, only 25, is work-

ing effectively to raise salaries and to

upgrade teaching standards. He is a

teacher of English and social studies in

Waconia High School, Waconia, Minn.

END

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REPORT FROM BELGIUM:

GHEEL LOOKS like any Belgian toen, but there is none other like it in the world.

HAT is love? In Gheel, a farm town in the

Flemish-speaking region of Belgium, it is a

simple devotion to an extraordinary idea.

For nearly 1,000 years, the townspeople

have been caring for the mentally ill. To-

day, of more than 22,000 inhabitants, over

2,000 are men, women and children who have been judged

insane. Instead of being locked up in hospital wards, these

patients live as members of families in the neat brick homes

of Gheel citizens. They work in the fields, help with house-

hold chores, take care of the babies. Patients come from all

sections of Belgium; a few private patients come from other

countries. They arrive at a small receiving hospital, where

the staff of four psychiatrists can observe them for a few

days. Based on their past history and behavior, a decision

is made whether they can be boarded out with a Gheel family.

Those who are not suitable because of extreme illness-less

than 10 per cent-are either kept in the hospital until they

can be transferred to foster-family care or sent to other

hospitals in Belgium. The Belgian Government pays families

boarding a patient 15 to 50 francs a day (30 cents to one

dollar). Their biggest reward is seeing despair turn to hope.

Produced by ROLAND H. BERG Photographed by JAMES H. KARALES

A TOWN THAT CARES FOR THE

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REL GIUM continoed

OME MENTALLY

ILL

HAVE SPENTA

LIFETIME IN GHEEL;

OTHERS ARE ON

THE THRESHOLD OF LIFE.

THE FIRST CIGAR a teen-aged patient smokes

must be enjoyed before an admiring audience, in this

case his 12-year-old “foster" sister.

CARING FOR THE BABIES of her foste

Jamily helps this 63-year-old patient to maintam

her hold on the world of reality.

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REPORT FROM BELGIUM:

What

Gheel

means

to me

En American who has a

mentally ill daughter describes his

strange but warm experiences

in Belgium's unique town

By JOHN D. J. MOORE

The author, a New York businessman, is donating the fee

paid to him for this article to the Family Care Foundation

for the Mentally IlI, which has been organized to further

the humanitarian ideals and methods practiced in Gheel.

W-

HEN I asked the concierge in the Brus-

sels hotel to arrange for a driver to take

me to Gheel, he gave me a quick, sharp look.

I was growing familiar with that quizzical glance.

Belgians themselves rarely go to Gheel. Why should

an American businessman want to visit the town?

visit any mental institution and

It is difficult

look at the inmates without feeling uncomfortable.

a morbidity about peering at people who

have been labeled mentally ill. But one soon loses this

hesitancy in Gheel, for the malades (sick ones)-

no one calls them anything else-are working in gar-

dens, sitting on the benches in the square, riding

bicycles or sweeping the porches of the neat brick

houses of this typical Belgian town. It is a favorite

joke of the Gheelois people to say, "You visitors can't

There

tell us from our patients."

When a particularly distressing case does appear

on the streets, the police don't pounce on him and haul

him away in a patrol wagon. I saw no patrol wagons

in Gheel, but I did see an old man, badly confused,

continued

In the late afternoon, a patient enjoys a walk

home after doing her shopping.

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RESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Was vexed. He was con-

THE

Spellman blasted education-aid N

BISHOPS

VS.

Alter denounced "discrimination."

KENNEDY

By FLETCHER KNEBEL

LOOK WASHINGTON BUREAU

ferring with a staff assistant in the White House over

the thorniest domestic issue of his fledgling Administra-

tion-the demand of the Roman Catholic hierarchy for Federal

loans to parochial schools.

"The bishops never took that position during Eisenhower's

eight years," he said testily, “and now they do it to me."

few days later, he was in a sunnier mood. A group

gathered in the White House to discuss Vice-President Lyndon

B. Johnson's new role as chairman of a committee to erase

racial discrimination on Government jobs and contracts.

"Lyndon," he said with his quick smile, “this is the cam-

paign all over again in reverse. This time, you'll have the Ne-

groes and I've got the Baptists."

Kennedy referred to the new political romance between

Baptist leaders and the nation's first Roman Catholic Presi-

dent, a lusty honeymoon without precedent in modern times

and one that would have been dismissed as incredible last fall

when hundreds of Baptist preachers flayed candidate Kennedy

from the pulpit.

The Kennedy-Baptist entente flowered with the vigor of

first love. The President conferred six hours with evangelist Billy

Graham, heard Graham extoll him at a praver breakfast,

continued

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population. Here are the Fesuits, lal

ulated jointly and separately.

charmed and traded quips with 62 Baptist missionaries at the White

House, received hundreds of congratulatory messages from Baptists

and saw glowing editorials about himself in the Baptist press.

Nor was this sudden interfaith honeymoon confined to the Bap-

tists. Protestant leaders across the land, including some old foes,

were singing his praises.

In a citadel of conservative Protestantism-the Washington head-

quarters of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation

of Church and State-phone calls and wires from around the nation

rang the bell for the Catholic President.

"We are extremely well pleased with President Kennedy," said

C. Stanley Lowell, associate director of the organization.

Most surprising of all was the comment of Paul Blanshard, long

a critic of Catholicism, whose book American Freedom and Catholic

Power is regarded by Catholic clergymen as the classic textbook of

the religious enemy.

"If Kennedy sticks to his guns," said Blanshard, "he'll be re-

elected with ease-by Protestant voters."

Had an astronaut left U. S. soil last October, when thousands

of Protestant ministers were arrayed with Old Testament fervor

against the White House candidacy of Catholic Kennedy, and re-

mained in orbit until this spring, he could not have credited his

ears upon landing.

He would have heard the same religious argument as last fall,

with yesterday's villain now a hero: the Protestant clergy of America,

Evangelist Billy Graham (left) praised Kennedy

at an interfaith breakfast

in February. Baptists who doubted the

wisdom of electing a Catholic President now applaud

Kennedy's stand on Federal aid for schools.

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THOMAS AND SUZANNE WAGNER of Excelsior, Minn.,

are 13-year-old twins who share more than the same

birthday. They share a love of horseback riding

and a talent for it that isn't often surpassed by

young people their age. The twins' grandparents

gave them a pony for their fifth birthday. Today,

they also have four show horses and

can ride as well as anyone in the Minneapolis

area. They have won more than 100 trophies and

nearly 600 ribbons at Midwestern horse shows.

They won many of the ribbons jointly:

by riding tandem bareback or in the pair class.

continued

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Generally, they compete with one another. The results are unpredictable.

Sometimes, only one of the twins competes, or they ride as a team.

Riding is fun, but it has its responsibilities

Susie and Tommy are the envy of their schoolmates, but owning five

horses also poses problems. They must pitch in every morning to clean

out the stable, and they must help with dozens of chores before an im-

portant show. In their local 4-H club, the twins are learning the fine

points of animal husbandry: the causes and cures of horse diseases,

how to tell a horse's age by its teeth and what foods horses thrive on.

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Playing King Arthur in Camelot is a great challenge to Burton's talent. He has to be a clown halj the night and a tragic figure the other half.

RICHARD BURTON

Hottest actor around

"I instinctively say, 'No!" when asked, Will your daughters Katy and Jessica become actresses?""

Thirty-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Welshman Richard Burton, currently

starring in the Broadway hit Camelot and generally re-

garded as the finest young actor of today, is a mass of seem-

ing contradictions. He is built like a hod carrier, yet he

moves, on stage, with the litheness and agility of a dancer.

His manner suggests an almost excessive self-confidence, but

beneath this lie a lonely shyness and a profound humility.

Burton is a brilliant and wild raconteur, but he is also an ex-

ceptionally sensitive listener. In a world of drama dominated

largely by unthinking “feeling" and unpredictable behavior,

he is a serious intellectual with a passion for stability.

With few exceptions, no other contemporary actor so

consistently affects his audience and critics. "Great mascu-

line authority," said one viewer. "Superb!" said another.

"Intuitive, appealing," said a third. "I'm nuts about him."

continued

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New leisure, new designs, new materials and man's ancient urge to enjoy nature's many mo0ods

are enticing more people to sail than ever before. Some 600,000 sailboats

2½ million Americans answer

the call of the wind...

of all kinds are now in use in the U. S., and

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Man's cunning with the power of the wind and the drive of the

sea is caught in these pictures of a 392-foot racing yawl

plowing the restless Atlantic. The hull is fiber glass over wood.

Many new big hulls are entirely fiber glass. Ocean cruisers

are usually over 30 feet; they are priced at $20,000 to $75,000,

cost $1,000 to $10,000 a year to maintain, sleep four

to six. Good sailing speed is about 82 knots.

continued

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America's favorite

racing classes

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ONE-DESIGN BOAT RACING implies that all boats within one class are identical and

that the winning of a race therefore depends on the know-how and luck of the crew.

This is a desirable theoretical optimum. Actually, no two boats are exactly alike,

and certain boats have proved themselves consistent winners though sailed by dif-

ferent people. The nine types shown here with specifications and names of their class

organizations are the most popular of over 200 one-design classes. Prices approxi-

mate the cost of the hulls. A suit of sails costs roughly 10 per cent of the hull price.

Many one-design boats come in do-it-yourself kit form at much lower prices.

continued

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Among the most beautiful creations of man,

sailboats also attract pretty passengers.

The wind and sea are тапу

things to many people,

a challenge without end

The mysteries of sailing for many years made

it a refuge of conservative traditions. It was

also an elaborate, expensive sport few could

afford. New developments in design and

marketing have changed this. Boat and sail

shapes, once fixed by whims of regional

craftsmen, now are determined in tank trials

and wind tunnels. Heavy wood hulls are be-

ing displaced by tougher, cheaper-to-maintain

fiber glass, even in cruising boats like the

33-foot Arco sloop at right. Weather fore-

casting, once the mysterious domain of sea-

farers with long memories and bad arthritis,

now can be learned by anyone with a small

radio. Some of sailing's gamble is gone. So is

much of the cost. The many pleasures remain.

Produced by BEN KOCIVAR

Color Photographs by PHILLIP HARRINGTON

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A fast, modern version of the ancient

but draws father and son together

Avin-hull Polynesian catamaran

offends traditional sailors,

Much o

CONNECTICUT father and son have discovered that "sailing is one

of the few sports in which parents can contest their kids on an equal

" Mark Smith, now 13, had his first sailboat ride when he was still

in diapers. His father Bob, former pilot instructor in the Air Force and

or a New York art-agency director, has been sailing since 1919. Their

principal waters are Long Island Sound, bordering their home port at

Darien, Conn., a historic sailing community.

Father and son sail as a team and also against each other. Young

Mark last year won four trophies. His father, a veteran Star, Lightning

and dinghy sailor, has won more than 400. It is noteworthy that, with

such a strong background in traditional racing, both are now captivated

by the breakthrough in sailboat racing accomplished by the modern

adaptation of the ancient Polynesian catamaran. The new craft is the

Tiger Cat, a boat of flashing performance, which traditionalists frown

upon as a "freak."

The twin-hull idea is hardly new. Early European explorers in the

South Pacific saw twin-hull catamarans-fast, big double canoes. The

concept appeared from time to time in other areas of the world. In the

late 1800's, a famous designer, Nathaniel Herreshoff, drew plans for

one that so soundly beat competitors from the New York Yacht Club

that it was barred from all later competition.

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By JOSEPH R. MALLORY, M.D.

Joseph Ross Mallory, 46, is a physician who practices general medicine

at Mattoon, Ill. ( population 19,088). Civic-minded as well as a good doc-

tor, he has become one of Mattoon's best-known and best-liked citizens.

Within the past few months, Dr. Mallory has been one of hundreds of phy-

sicians who have been speaking at the request of county medical societies

concerning medical-care problems of the aged. He warns of the threat of

socialized medicine at gatherings such as P.T.A, meetings and business-

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club luncheons. As a solution, he favors the recently enacted Kerr-Mills

Law, which authorizes the use of general tax funds of the Federal and state

governments; its provisions are to be locally administered and call for aid

only to those aged who qualify. He disapproves of the Kennedy Adminis-

tration's plan to pay for limited aid to all the aged under Social Security.

Here, in question-and-answer form, Dr. Mallory gives his reasons.

Do you feel that medical care for the aged is a serious national

problem? I will have to give that question a qualified yes. I think we

must assume there is a problem, although I'm inclined to the opinion

continued

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possible for some of the elderly to take care of themselves adequately.

that it has been exaggerated. Nevertheless, we must recognize that is.

impossible for all families to take care of their aged members and Is

Many of them must have help beyond themselves and their families

The question, then, is how we are going to provide the financial

assistance these people require? That's the heart of the problem

right there.

The Administration has proposed that health care for the aged

be financed through the Social Security system. Why are you

opposed to this approach? I can think of many good reasons. To be.

gin with, the Administration proposal-the King Bill now before Con-

gress-is based on a double error. It assumes that most of the aged are

in poor health and that most of them need help to meet the costs of

medical care. This just isn't true. Some of our elderly are in poor health.

and some do have financial troubles. But most are healthy and in reason-

ably good shape financially. A number of surveys back this up.

Does this hold true in your community? Yes, and I suspect it holds

true in most communities.

You said you think the problem is exaggerated. In what way?

Well, just look around for yourself. Some older people are millionaires.

Some are comfortably well off. Millions have some form of health insur-

ance and private pension programs. Some, of course, are poor-just as

some young or middle-aged people are poor. I truly believe that anyone

who really needs medical care in this country can get it regardless of

his financial status.

What about the health of the aged? Don't they require medical

care more often than young people? Some do; some don't. I don't

think the problem can be standardized to that extent. Some 70-year-olds

play 18 holes of golf regularly; others are spry enough, but prefer check-

ers, and still others are bedridden. Many of the ailments of the elderly

would disappear if society stopped looking at them as castoffs, if these

older people felt they were wanted and had a mission in life. Older folks

are individuals, and their problems have to be solved on an individual

basis. You can't answer all of their problems with a single solution.

You obviously feel very keenly about this controversy over medi-

cal care. Why do you feel so strongly about it? For a number of

reasons. Most important, I think, is that I sincerely believe that the free

practice of medicine, which has given our people the best medical care

in the world, is in jeopardy. A physician's first concern is for his patients,

and that concern goes beyond the aches and pains of the people he treats.

I'm convinced, along with most of my colleagues, that, unless the people

really understand what's going on, we're liable to awaken some morn-

ing and find we've got socialized medicine.

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CAROL

BURNETT:

America's

greatest

face

maker

CAROL BURNETT, former baby

sitter, usherette and sales-

lady, is the most mobile-faced

comedienne in the U. S. She

claims she became a star be-

cause she wasn't smart

enough to know what couldn't

be done-so she went ahead

and did it. Her inspired luna-

cies on The Garry Moore

Show (CBS-TV) have estab-

lished Carol as a top lady

clown. Now 27, she is sep-

arated from her husband,

lives in New York with a 17-

year-old sister, spends her

leisure time going to the thea-

ter and drawing cartoons.

"To succeed in the movies, you

have to look like Marilyn

Monroe or Tony Curtis.

Unfortunately, 1 look more like

Tony Curtis," says Carol.

Presumably, that is when she

is not looking like Chaplin

(left), her comely self (right),

Fanny Brice, J. Fred Muggs,

Martha Raye or her own alter

ego Tondeleyo Fink (opposite

page). Why does she do it?

People laugh. She likes it.

continued

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7UP

Copyright 1961 by The Seven-Up Company

Whenever there's happy-girl talk

it's time for the real thirst-quencher!

Just between us girls, isn't half the fun of having fun talking it over later? So don't let thirst interrupt you! Just do your

chatting over chilled 7-Up. With the first sparkling sip, your throat feels cooler and fresher. With the last sparkling sip,

thirst is gone-and you're glad! Any time you have a conference, "fresh up" with 7-Up. It's always 7-Up time!

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Andheas B Rechaityr

Ph.D.

ON THE DECK OF THE

U. S. NAVY BATHYSCAPH "TRIESTE"

He's enjoyed Camels for years.

How about you? If you're smoking

more now, but enjoying it less

change to Camels. Start to

really enjoy smoking again.

  • Condition: Very Good
  • Publication Month: May
  • Publication Year: 1961
  • Format: Physical
  • Language: English
  • Publication Frequency: Weekly
  • Publication Name: Look
  • Features: Illustrated
  • Genre: Women
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