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Across the narrow seas, Britain's urban millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...
...Domestic Issues. And what of those catchword issues of the current political campaign? In Ike's frame of reference they fell easily into their proper place...
...recommended to Washington that the U.S. re-examine its assumptions about Russian intentions. The assumptions to be re-examined are Kennan's own, for it is his analysis of Russia which for the past five years has formed the heart of U.S. policy. Containment is Kennan's catchword. As "Mr. X" writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet...
...wake of President Truman's icy blast of news that Russia had the bomb, the Japanese had adopted a new catchword to replace banzai. It was "peace...
...Magnetism. Hypnotism has been inspiring public interest and noisy argument ever since the days, in 18th Century Paris, when Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described in two recently...