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Seamless Web. Author McLuhan is a University of Toronto professor and literary critic, who writes books (first was The Gutenberg Galaxy) to prove that books are responsible for most of the ills of modern man. Nationalism, war, industrialization, population explosion, the breakdown of human relations in urbanized chaos-McLuhan blames them all on Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and the resulting growth of both the audience and the technology for communication-by-print...
...came out with his "profile" of the ideal G.O.P. nominee; the hurt was hardly lessened when Ike later denied that he had meant it to be used against Barry. A Good Housekeeping writer said he had been told by Goldwater's wife Peggy that Barry had suffered nervous breakdowns, due to business pressures, twice in the late 1930s. Columnist Drew Pearson picked up the item and with his characteristic kind of punch, raised the question of whether Goldwater was mentally stable enough to be President. Goldwater's longtime physician denied that Barry had ever suffered any such breakdown...
...that the system can make antibody to neutralize the invader. "Normally," says Dr. Dameshek, "the body has safeguards so it can recognize 'self as opposed to 'not-self,' and it will not damage 'self materials. Occasionally these safeguards break down." Dr. Dameshek detected such a breakdown in 1937 when he was treating three patients for severe hemolytic ("blood-destroying") anemia. They needed transfusions, but in the blood of each patient the doctor found a factor that made cross-matching difficult. He discovered that both the donors' blood cells and the patients' own were being...
...adapts his convictions to the latest Gallup surveys, and Henry Fonda, the idealistic egghead. Fonda lacks the cheek, magnetism, and driving ambition to make his bid for high office seem more than perfunctory. Thus when Robertson threatens to release a medical report showing that Fonda once had a mental breakdown and is a habitual philanderer, it is obvious that Fonda will be too decent to retaliate by bringing up Robertson's own involvement in an Army homosexual scandal. Director Franklin Schaffner further dissipates the film's climactic confrontation scene with Robertson's old Army buddy, letting...
Then there was Dr. Gérard Savoy, who was called in to treat Winnie in Lausanne in 1958, when she had a nervous breakdown. Though Dr. Savoy conveniently forgot to mention that his license had just been suspended for taking kickbacks from a nurse, he went on Winnie's payroll at $1,500 a month...