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Well-trained guerrillas from Russia's satellite states infiltrated into Greece's northern provinces, fanning Greece's chronic civil war. By diverting the energies of the Greek Government from the desperate domestic situation to the fighting in the north, the Communists were constantly worsening that domestic situation and gaining supporters among Greece's disgruntled, hungry people. The exasperatingly slow and petty testimonies before the U.N. commission did not tell the real story of Greece's tragedy. Outside the Acropole Palace's heavy brown curtains the streets of Athens told far more...
...planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
There are Borstals of varying degrees, ranging from Sherwood Prison (a fairly rough place for chronic repeaters and the toughest offenders) to North Sea Camp (more like a farm-school than a prison). English juvenile delinquents, after "weighing in" (sentencing), are sent to Wormwood Scrubs Boys' Prison for classifying. From Wormwood Scrubs they are shipped to the Borstal that best suits their record and personality. They do not always agree with the choice: a recurring Borstal headache is "scarpering" (running away...
Nonetheless, by last week Watts and other U.S. neurosurgeons had performed more than 2,000 lobotomies, with sensational results. Lobotomy is used chiefly for serious mental diseases: schizophrenia and other forms of dementia praecox, compulsive neuroses, chronic, long-standing depression or agitation. Most cases are cured or greatly improved. So far, neurologists have discovered no seriously harmful effects. The operation is dangerous (a slight miscalculation may kill the patient by cutting a cerebral artery), but the skilled surgeons performing it have had very few deaths...
...Inevitable Conflict." But money had something to do with it. Many a doctor hated the thought of haggling over fees with the Government. Under "Britain's 35-year-old National Health Insurance system, haggling has been chronic: British dentists are currently in a fee row with the Ministry of National Insurance (they demand ?9 9s. for a set of false teeth v. the Ministry's offer of ?7), and insurance physicians recently won a raise (to 15s. a patient) only after long dispute...