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...Schneck and his colleagues recommend using hypnosis to get at a wide range of psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...
...holdings broke. Why had Brownell not foreseen the trouble and steered around it? Brownell says merely that he was not asked and did not advise Wilson on the stock question until after the storm broke. He dismisses the Wilson crisis lightly-perhaps too lightly. Says Brownell: "You have to distinguish between Washington dinner-party conversation-the most deadly thing in public life today-and the actual merits of the case. When a fellow makes a social error on the Hill, that's all they talk about here. You get a better perspective out in the Midwest...
...Called Erwin by his friends and "Engine Charlie" by industrialists, who want to distinguish him from Charles Edward Wilson, formerly of General Electric (see BUSINESS), who is known as "Electric Charlie...
...captured with a Studebaker wagon. Orders poured in from all over the world, and by 1887 the company was touting itself as "The Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been, or a "Wuzzer." In 1910 Studebaker entered the auto business by buying control of Detroit's Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Co. Though Studebaker didn't know it, E-M-F's most valuable asset was in the person of a young man named...
...bill passed in the Senate, but was defeated in the House. This time, Saltonstall has altered his bill in several minor ways to pacify House members: the term of training has been increased from four to six months, and the UMT trainees will wear different uniforms and insignia to distinguish them from the regulars...