Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judgments. In ten years the highest verdict awarded in Los Angeles jumped from $33,000 to $156,000; there are instances of awards of $86,000 for a broken hip, $100,000 for losing a toe. Insurance companies find themselves increasingly liable for such ephemeral damages as plaintiffs' mental anguish, e.g., a Southwestern woman who merely witnessed an auto accident that left her untouched, even forced a company to pay her $90,000 on the claim (disputed by two eminent obstetricians) that the sight caused her to have a miscarriage...
...talent for dramatizing the down-to-mud reality of the average American's experience in combat. His newest book puts the microscope to a phase of combat little known to the U.S. public: the painful, drawn-out stalemate (1952-53) that anti-climaxed the Korean war. "One funda mental question," says Marshall in his preface, "in Korea, 1953, and now, is how the American character continues to meet the test of great events...
After his retirement from active duty next February, Ridd hopes to establish connections for teaching with some university, preferably Harvard. The university would ostensibly benefit from such an arrangement by an increase in mental alacrity of students who learned the art, and from analysis of the many predictions which would undoubtedly result. The student would be able to perfect both his mind and body, while "tuning in with the universe...
...long-neglected disorders, cerebral palsy and mental retardation, will get from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness the full research treatment: more than $1,000,000 a year for the next ten years, at least, to track down cause-and-effect relationships involving such factors as heredity, oxygen shortage at birth, injury during delivery, maternal infections and use of drugs during pregnancy...
...becoming an amoeba, Olga gets panicky, has him insulin-and electro-shocked back to everyday life. Egmont rather sheepishly admits that maybe man had better develop the mind he has rather than try to lose it in matter. The author's further notion that mental progress is some kind of communal process is underlined by a lengthy subplot about a company strike that contains all the solidarity-forever, to-the-barricades cliches...