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Thanks to the Prix Goncourt, Mile, Charles-Roux will certainly reap her own commercial benefits from the book. The Prix Goncourt novel each year makes just about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English...
Most authorities today hold that suicide does not occur suddenly but is the outcome of a mixture of causes and a long, progressive "failure of adaptation." But lately, according to Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, many psychiatrists are considering the possibility of a hitherto-unnamed neurosis that predisposes its victims to suicidal tendencies: they "are just as disinclined to be ill as, for instance, tuberculosis patients; they are not free in making their decisions...
...wrong," the distinguished physiologist admitted to the American Heart Association meeting in Manhattan. But if he was right, Dr. Henry A. Schroeder had not only provided an explanation for millions of hitherto inexplicable cases of high blood pressure; he had also suggested a possible method of treatment. Dr. Schroeder had also pointed out a mechanism by which diabetes may develop in adult Americans, and he had outlined an approach to prevention of the disease...
...older children at first marvel at such hitherto unknown educational luxuries as swimming pools, well-equipped gyms and driver-training courses. Tots find the suburban facilities wonderful but a bit scary. One third-grade boy looked into the big cafeteria in West Hartford's King Philip School and refused to walk in. "I'm not hungry," he protested. Coaxed inside by a white classmate, he ate with gusto; he had only hesitated because he had never seen a cafeteria before...
...Democrats-much of it on TV spots pointing up his administration's accomplishments. Showing no signs of deceleration, he toured his native Westchester County last week, drew crowds of up to 1,000 people at stops timed to the second. Along the way, local G.O.P. candidates, who hitherto had been reluctant to be identified with Rockefeller, scurried to his side...