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r Y sent tor e. ind Industrial Hygiene Digest - 9 September, 1952 as biolo(jical aspects of aging, nutrition, physical activity, and emotional health. Degenerative cardiovascular disease is the cause of most deaths and disabilities among the annuitant group; therefore effort should be con centrated upon that cause of death and disability. The author recommends '5-. classroom instruction as the best method of contacting the prospective, annuitants. Positive rather than negative advice should be given regarding nutrition. 953 Lifelong Adjustment of Man and Job; the Possible Role of Multiphasic Screening. C. Kuh. Pcrmanente Found. Med. Bull. 10, 301-305 (Aug. 1952). The continual lifelong adjustment of man and job can be facilitated by improved selective placement, by the recognition that neither physical disability nor age need be a barrier to employment, and by the careful evaluation of man's changing capacities with age. The newer technique of multiphasic screening may offer valuable clues in respect to such changing capacities. In contrast to the unpopular periodic health examination, multiphasic screening seems to appeal to popular interest in periodic checking of health, and thus may not only prove a valuable public health technique but have special Implications for job placement. -- Author's Summary 954 Educational Therapy in the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Program. L. B. Newman and I. R. Popell. Arch. Phys. Med. 33, 477-485 (Aug. 1952). The authors describe educational therapy as it functions In the Veterans Administration Hospital at Hines, Illinois. Educational therapy plays an essential role of the sick and disabled veteran and functions in the hospital under the close medical guidance and supervision of the psy chiatrist. It should be seriously considered for patients In civilian hospi tals and other institutions. Many disabled people can, through total rehabilitation, be gainfully employed and perform duties as well as normal persons. As part of total rehabilitation, educational therapy further aids the disabled to adjust and reorganize their lives for maximum productive usefulness and a future with happiness, satisfaction, respect, and dignity. -- Cond. from Authors' Summary . Observations of Cardiorespiratory Performance in Normal Subjects Under Unusual Stress TJTTring Exercise. R. A. Bruce, F. W. Lovejoy, P. N. G. Yu, and M. K. McDowell. Arch. Ind. Hyg. h Occ. Med. 6, 105-112 (Aug. 1952). . ~ : The paper presents a comparative study of the effects of unusual stresses on exercise performance in normal subjects. Details of the