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Then Dr. Albert Abraham Mason heard of the case. In his studies of psychosomatic conditions, he had taken an interest in hypnosis. Eighteen months ago, in a white-painted hospital room in East Grinstead, Sussex, a dozen skeptical doctors watched as Dr. Mason talked the boy into a hypnotic trance. It took ten minutes. Then Hypnotherapist Mason said again & again: "Your left arm will clear." (He had begun with a particular part of the body to make the test more precise...
...Eighteen years ago, just after the U.S. formally recognized the Soviet Union, an unknown young U.S. Foreign Service officer named George F. Kennan sat down with the Russians to negotiate the lease on a new seven-story building at 13-15 Mokhovaya, only a stone's throw across a square from the Kremlin. It became the main building of the U.S. Embassy. Last week Kennan, now the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, got his eviction notice. He was told...
Conant today calls the legend entirely untrue, but admits that "perhaps it is symbolic," Eighteen years later he feels that he has succeeded in shutting off chemistry in a small, little used corner of his mind. True, there are occasional twinges when he reads chemical journals or revises his standard textbook on the subject, but he has done no actual research since becoming president. He gives infrequent but spectacular demonstrations in Natural Science courses, but as he says "since 1933 I can't claim to have advanced the barriers of science one millimeter...
Shambles at the Farm. Two days later the revolt spread 37 miles north to Rahway State Prison Farm, a converted reformatory holding an overflow of lesser toughs from the Trenton prison. At Rahway the riot was bigger, and wilder. Eighteen guards were on duty in the wing of one dormitory where the trouble started. As the convicts began rioting, tearing bedding and overturning steel bunks, guards on the first floor got out, herding 75 prisoners ahead of them. Nine other guards were grabbed as hostages by 231 convicts, who barricaded themselves on the second floor...
Requiring every eighteen-year-old to serve on active duty for two years would satisfy most of the Pentagon's needs for a backlog of fully-trained soldiers. UMS would also allow young men the certainty now made impossible by Selective Service. Because they would know exactly when they would have to serve, only a global emergency could disrupt their plans. As for Congressmen, they cannot expect to improve their political position by sponsoring a UMS program, but at least they would be accomplishing something useful...