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...officials called Colantino's condition good following the operation and the setting of the fracture. It is likely, however, that he will remain in a cast until the end of the football season. At present, Colantino is in little pain and there is every expectation that the injury will mend with no complications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '56 Football Candidate Undergoes Operation | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

...police never tracked down the murderer. Mdhlani kept his son's secret, after first pledging him to mend his evil ways. Soon Clifford was back to his old tricks: armed with three revolvers he terrorized the good people of the villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Old Man & the Gallows | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...Freud's medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Psychiatry for Catholics | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...created a crisis every week, turned against his backers, made himself dictator and got booted out by the army. He showed a sure sense for the common touch. Once, tearing his trousers climbing into the rickety presidential limousine, he rejected the idea of getting another car, saying: "We will mend the pants, repair the car, and build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when a minor official complained about a cabinet minister, Velasco fired the minister on the spot and gave the job to the complainer. "Ecuador," Velasco concluded, "is a very difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Spellbinder's Return | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...wife of a conscientious doctor, I, too, am shocked by the practices revealed in your article. While hoping that "the guilty doctors will mend their ways," and checking on them as if they were little boys with jam on their faces, can the California Medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 14, 1952 | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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