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...months-and President Joao Goulart was engaged in another of those nimble political maneuvers by which he solves nothing but somehow survives. Out as Finance Minister went Carlos Alberto Alves Carvalho Pinto, 53, the able onetime governor of Sao Paulo state, who resigned in anger after six hopeless months of struggle against Brazil's wild inflation (about 85% in 1963), its fleeing capital and its immense foreign debt. In to cope with the same problems came Ney Galvao, 60, a smalltime provincial banker whose only previous claim to fame was as a Goulart-appointed head of the Bank...
...merely committing them to the nearest state hospital." That was in 1915, and only three years later, at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the young Dr. Menninger found that "dementia praecox" had already gone out of fashion; the new label was "schizophrenia." But under any name the condition was still considered hopeless. Then, says Dr. Menninger, who had been moved by the inspired teachings of Ernest Southard, "we began to think in a heretical way . . . that perhaps schizophrenia was not so malignant as we thought but a process that might in some instances be reversible. These were radical thoughts in those days...
...right there and then ended the efficiency of the caper that would have gone down in history as the nation's greatest jewel robbery. For the hopeless fact was that the robber who was designated as the "wheel man"-the "cop" assigned to drive off with the boodle-the excruciatingly exasperated hood with a huge fortune in his grasp-the sad simpleton upon whom everything depended-couldn't drive a 1951 Ford...
Bored by Jeanne's affection, Julien enlists the sensual services of a household maid. Jeanne, blandly innocent, forgives this transgression and more that follow it. But the marriage is hopeless. Put in motion by the pathetic mismatch between Jeanne and Julien, the relentless tragedy moves deeper and deeper into gloom, until it is both capped and cut short by a violent climax...
Even if U.S.-Soviet negotiations for a broader nuclear-ban treaty appear hopeless, the solution of a unilateral step toward disarmament, taken by this country with the hope that the Russians would follow suit, would not be advisable, Kaysen said...