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...Chronicle were two minds with but a single pun: "Butler Raids the Kitchen." From miners and railwaymen came demands for higher wages to match higher prices. Said the Conservative Daily Telegraph, usually one of Butler's stoutest supporters: "His strategy is disappointing because he has not made any frontal attack on government expenditures...
...questioned about the elimination of the word "mild" from a hospital bulletin describing the President's thrombosis. "The word 'mild,' " he said, "was not in his [General Snyder's] more recent descriptions." The attack, he added, had been more fully diagnosed as an anterior (frontal) coronary thrombosis...
...this is still essentially a "blind" operation in which the scalpel (leucotome) makes a series of highly destructive stabs through unoffending brain tissue before the surgeon can feel sure he has cut the nerve bundles that join the thalamus (probably the seat of basic anxiety) to the frontal lobes of the cortex (where anxiety and pain are felt intellectually). Los Angeles' Dr. Tracy J. Putnam has devised a way of driving two hollow needles precisely into the chosen nerve bundles. These are then destroyed by seeds of radon (a radioactive gas) dropped down the needles...
...Democratic organization picked their man: hardworking, grey-toned Averell Harriman. 62, a well-meaning but ineffectual candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, who has never been elected to anything other than a board of directors. Frank Roosevelt-choosing his words carefully so as to avoid a frontal attack on either Harriman or the bosses-cried out that he was still in the race. He was among the few who thought...
...moral of this is plain that adequate defensive strength and eternal vigilance is the price to be paid for coexistence . . . There is, I think, because of our growing collective strength, less danger at this time of a deliberate frontal aggression than two years ago. The Soviet leaders are realists. They know that such an attack would be met by ... atomic retaliation from the U.S., which would leave their great cities in ruins...