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...Manhattan's lower East Side one afternoon last week, Louis Sarno, a sinewy construction foreman, saw a big-city tragedy in the making. Directly across traffic-jammed South Street an apartment window stood open. As Sarno watched, a two-year-old boy climbed on the sill, teetered in fright four floors above the sidewalk. Sarno yelled at two gardeners working across the street. They did not hear him. The 41-year-old foreman wasted no more time...
Juan PerÓn received his late wife's double at his suburban home. "I had a little stage fright at first," she reported later, "but after five minutes you forget he's the President; he's just another man. He was very friendly. Very warm. Very enthusiastic. Very kind. He told me 'Your hands are just like my wife's.' He also said my figure was like Evita...
...disease is likely to get worse despite the best of medical care. If a patient is always tense and angry and bucks his necessarily slow treatment he is not apt to improve very fast. But if a depressed patient can be made to snap out of it by sudden fright or sudden anger, he will probably begin to get better right away...
...almost desert-like. Scattered here & there, like the bare bones of long-dead hills, are piles of gigantic stones. Jackals wander across the fields, and black kites wheel lazily in the sky. Tiny villages huddle beside the road, and when an automobile approaches, naked children cower in fright, then invariably, as panicky chickens do, dart into the car's path. Gaunt women, stripped to the waist, work in the fields...
...inspirational comments, however, have made Murphy's mark; the 45 year old Irishman, whose crew cut is now slightly graying, has great ability at stringing a credulous victim into fright, then self-laughter. To an innocent freshman, who had just been told by a doctor that his knee required surgery, Murphy was heard to say "Knee job, eh? Fine--I know that doctor has always wanted to do a knee operation." That the doctor in question was Quigley himself hardly alleviated the freshman's tremors...