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...first full week of campaigning, Humphrey managed to summon up every demon that has beset him this year: his inability to focus on the essential, his failure to re-establish his independence of Lyndon Johnson, his lack of an efficient campaign organization, his troubles with the dissident Democratic left. Though not really prepared to mount a major campaign swing?Larry O'Brien had barely taken over as manager of a badly disorganized Democratic machine?Humphrey was dispatched willy-nilly to Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware and New Jersey. Tired when he started, he made as many as nine...
...some Nigerian cities, for example, an estimated two-thirds of the population suffer from some form of mental illness?mostly anxiety. Unable to teach such people, a number of Western-trained psychiatrists have lately employed witch doctors to allay their demon-ridden patients' fears?and only then succeeded in treating them...
...witnesses who would swear that the subject had been in another city on the weekend he was supposed to have been told about the plot. "That's an absolute lie!" he shouted with conviction. "That's the action of Harris and his group. That man is a demon...
Cooley is a demon for speed. In his first heart transplant, he performed the actual implantation of the donor organ in Everett C. Thomas' chest in 31 min. His second, for Recipient James B. Cobb, took 42 min. Cooley's third transplant, which took about 30 min., raised a legal question. The heart came from Clarence Nicks, 32, who died after being beaten in a barroom brawl. Nicks showed no brain-wave activity and had had no reflexes for hours before his doctors shut off the machine that had been oxygenating the blood in his lungs. There...
Germany's Rolf Hochhuth is a demon researcher, an addicted player of the blame game, and a member of the lapel-grabbing school of play writing. In The Deputy, he buttonholed playgoers to blame Pope Pius XII for not having protested the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. In Soldiers, he is again peremptorily grabbing the audience's lapels to argue that Churchill connived at the murder of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of the Polish government in exile, in order to placate Stalin...