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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inconsistent sensitivity to alcohol in a supposedly normal individual may be an aftereffect of infectious disease, Dr. Meerloo notes. Or it may follow exhaustion or starvation. A probable precipitant is the combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Who Gets Drunk & Why | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

THREE-DAY WEEKEND will be tried by Longren Aircraft Co. of Torrance, Calif., which believes it is first company to do so. Its 498 workers will take one three-day weekend each month, follow it with a single one-day weekend to make up for lost time. Employees suggested plan to have more time for excursions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...thinly fictionalized, essentially documentary book tells, in the words of Defense Attorney Paul Biegler, of the investigation and trial that follow. Biegler gets a series of rude shocks: luscious Laura's husband has a nasty disposition and a tendency to attack any man who admires his wife. There is some doubt that Laura was raped at all (in examining this problem, Author Voelker is even more clinical than James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Case of Luscious Laura | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Pastor Bronstein's services follow a conventional Protestant order, with special emphasis on the connections between the Old Testament and the New. Jewish holidays are celebrated with Christian interpretations. Example: the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah-to remind God of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and. for Isaac's sake, the forgiveness of sins-contains for Jewish Christians the additional idea that Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Christians | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...announced the crusade's executive committee. Of the surplus, $150,000 will go to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Minneapolis to help finance TV broadcasts and future crusades. The remaining $67,618 will be turned over to New York City's Protestant Council for follow-up evangelism in the wake of Graham's 16-week stand in Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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