Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that I'm afraid of heights," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "Not even that I am terrified of accidents. It's harder to define. I've flown three times in my life, and I was absolutely miserable every minute. I can't breathe, feel time is suspended, and there I am-alone with my anguish...
...greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian Bob Newhart: "I take white-knuckle flights. I have a couple of drinks before, a couple during the flight-and then I sit there and suffer...
Sheer Will Power. Top Manhattan Model Peggy Moffitt first flew at the age of seven, and used to commute to California by plane; now she travels only by train. Why the changeover? "Nothing dramatic," she says, "I just got married, and that made me feel mortal." Most groundlings trace the beginning of their phobia to an especially hairy flight. Jackie Gleason swore off flying in the 1940s when the plane on which he was a California-to-New York passenger lost two engines and landed in a Midwest wheatfield. Old Trouper Jimmy Durante also dates his dislike of flying...
...describes actions of our society in vivid, dreamlike images. The people of the world must feel "like passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passle of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat." The 1954 Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would...
WASHINGTON--State Department Officials here feel that South Vietnam's boycott of the new phase of the Paris peace talks beginning Wednesday will probably not hold up negotiations for a ceasefire and withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam...