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...quit drinking for good. He said to the psychiatrist some time later: "You did something to me when you made me sign that card. I knew you meant business. I made up my mind I wasn't going to run my own case any longer. . . . [Then] I felt calmer and quieter inside and have ever since...
...Chicago Board of Trade. They reached $2.00¾ for July corn; the previous high was $1.99⅛, set in 1919. The jump was caused by a forecast of subnormal temperatures for the corn states, already suffering from a cold, wet spring that delayed planting. The Department of Agriculture, calmer than corn speculators, still expects a big corn crop, exceeding three billion bushels...
...country people calmer, saner, more law-abiding and "better adjusted" than city folks? Back-to-nature enthusiasts, who like to think so, had reason last week to think again. A recent case study of a typical Ohio rural county found that country people, in spite of their slower-paced living, are just as frustrated, neurotic and generally queer as anybody else-perhaps more...
...belt of crustal uneasiness surrounds the entire Pacific Ocean. The Pacific's shores are nearly all high and rugged, decorated with volcanoes or with young (a mere 100,000,000 years or so), still growing mountain ranges which shake periodically like custard on a plate. Atlantic shores, much calmer, are mostly old and stable...
...Calmer seismologists say that in 50 years they may be able to explain how seismic tremors in various parts of the world are related to one another. At the moment, they do not know...