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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.
LOOK
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.
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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.
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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
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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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Copyright 1961 by The Seven-Up Company
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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.