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...effects at first were not marked: it works more slowly than chlorpromazine. But the effect is cumulative. Within a day or two, the women were calmer and quieter. Soon they began to eat better, and gained up to ten pounds in two weeks. Many who had been hostile to the attendants, or had mutely avoided them, sought them out and wanted to talk. They reported vivid but not unpleasant dreams...
...elevated to the peerage as Viscount Kilmuir (Churchill recently made him Lord Chancellor), a by-election was needed. Both parties wheeled out their heavy artillery. "There has been a steady encroachment on the living standards of our people," claimed Socialist Clement Attlee. For the Tories Sir Winston claimed a calmer world outside and more prosperity inside Britain. A characteristically tight British majority apparently agreed with Sir Winston. The result: for 27-year-old Tory John Woollam, a riveter's son, 21,158 votes versus 18,650 for his Socialist rival-a small but gratifying increase...
...Calmer witnesses testified that much of the trouble comes from the military habit of rapidly "rotating" the commanding officers of a laboratory. Sometimes these birds of passage stay a year or two, learning almost nothing about the complicated work that they are supposed to supervise...
...atmosphere free from pre-election tensions." Some Democrats immediately attacked this decision as a move to shield Republicans from the necessity of taking a stand on McCarthy until after the elections. But there is no doubt that the Senate will be able to exercise a calmer judgment after...
...were more concerned to trap him than get information. This he no longer believes. He no longer feels that he has a hostile audience. In short, after a fairly stormy passage during the last year and a half, he has come out into what seems to him to be calmer water. The economic situation at home is improved, peace has been preserved, and the press conference, which used to be a crisis, is now seen at the White House as an opportunity...