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...badly undermanned X-ray staff simply quit work on a busy weekend and went home. That was more than the hospital's 27 hardened chief physicians and surgeons could endure. Despite their professional aversion to notoriety, they gave Boston newspapers full, clinical details of the hospital's chronic condition -a move calculated to arouse the conscience of city hall and of the entire community...
...spray. In a letter to state and local health authorities, he warned that Mace's prolonged irritant ability "clearly increases the possibility of more than transient effects to the exposed individuals unless treatment is prompt." He added that further study would be necessary "to determine possible chronic effects." A spokesman...
...replied, 657 said Barry Goldwater was fit for the presidency, 571 declined to take a position, and 1,189 called him unfit-the latter in no uncertain terms. Some of their opinions: "emotionally unstable," "immature," "cowardly," "grossly psychotic," "paranoid," "mass murderer," "amoral and immoral," "chronic schizophrenic" and "dangerous lunatic." One psychiatrist even felt that a proposed Goldwater visit to Hitler's Berchtesgaden "is enough to convince me of his strong identification with the authoritarianism of Hitler, if not identification with Hitler himself...
...word installment published last August in Partisan Review; called Whacking Off, it is a frantic confession of boyhood sin. Portnoy recalls how, as an adolescent, he always had to please his parents publicly, while he privately and obsessively masturbated to please himself; this experience sentenced him to a chronic condition of shame, which he begs his analyst to cure. The Jewish Blues, which reveals the Portnoy family guilts and secrets even further, appeared the following month in the first issue of New American Review. The fourth and by far largest section (28,000 words) appears in the Review...
THERE WILL be a good deal of pressure for an expansion of the SDR's power from the member nations, particularly the underdeveloped nations. Because they must import large quantities of machinery and other producers' goods, they have chronic balance-of-payments difficulties and will demand more and more credit in the form of SDR's. For exactly the same reason they lack large reserves of dollars and particularly of gold. Fearing the operation of Gresham's Law (that the best currency drives out all others as a store of value) with gold being the most highly-prized form...