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VERSATILITY IS FINE, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

THE NINE FACES of Barry Morse on the cover of this issue indicate the multi-faceted skills of a man who has long been called Canada’s most versatile actor. In a thirty-year professional career, Morse has played hundreds of roles ranging from Macbeth to Hollywood gangsters. By JON RUDDY15 min

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SCHIZOPHRENIA

It's a disease that creates a private hell for 250,000 Canadians. Doctors say there's no simple cure —but Dr. Abram Hoffer says his pill can treat By Alan Edmonds14 min

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MAILBAG

Sic ’em, Philip! / Courageous runaways / What’s it cost to live? / Teenage confusion

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Anatomy of a championship: how Chuvalo won by losing

The Clay-Chuvalo match was labeled the nonfight of the century. A close-up report on how a “bum” became a hero By JOHN ROBERTSON12 min

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THE DEATHS OF 4,800 OTHERS

Would new safety laws cut the toll? Ottawa is asking—and so is Detroit By GRATTAN GRAY10 min

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WHAT A BLIND BABY NEEDS MORE THAN TENDER LOVING CARE

is the radical therapy a BC social worker has pioneered with astonishing success. By trial and error she has found that forcing an infant to fend for itself can be the kindest thing a parent can do By AUDREY DOWN9 min

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THE DEATH OF JOCK TURCOT

Who knows? Someday he might have been prime minister. But now he’s a traffic statistic By SUSAN DEXTER7 min

7 DAYS: LET’S TAKE IT SLOWLY, FROM THE TOP

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7 DAYS: LET’S TAKE IT SLOWLY, FROM THE TOP

PERHAPS THE MOST intriguing aspect of the opening rounds of the affair of This Hour Has Seven Days — even to those who regarded such a blow-up as inevitable — has been the contrast between on the one hand, the Marvin Mellobell bumbling of the CBC management and, on the other, the responsibility, even the maturity of the producers — the astonishing point being that, if anything, we might have expected the seasoned bureaucrats of the CBC to be at least responsible, and the brash, committed, energetic young men and women of Seven Days to act with their emotions first and their reason second. By PETER GZOWSKI7 min

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MACLEAN’S REPORTS

BACKSTAGE AT OTTAWA

This has been a Bye-Bye production; four years, $6 million, a cast of hundreds By Blair Fraser, BLAIR FRASER5 min

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ARGUMENT

A history professor says: let’s face it— historical facts just don’t support the “dove” argument against the U. S. in Vietnam By K. H. W. HILBORN5 min