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...milder method of dredging the mind is narcosynthesis (with some such "truth serum" as sodium amytal). In a twilight state between wakefulness and deep sleep, the patient often says things he cannot or will not say when fully conscious. Narcosynthesis works best when the patient's difficulties are recent (as in some "war neuroses"). The most desperate treatment of all, for the patient who fails to respond to anything else, is a drastic brain operation, like lobotomy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Lobotomy may relieve the more troublesome symptoms, but it may also leave the patient so irresponsible or lumpish...
...soap is peddled to the U.S. Sample radio commercials read by Comedian Tom Ewell: "Hello Europe-this is America. Ladies, does your government look different lately? Are your borders in disorder? Well, join the swing to Democracy. And remember,Victor Kravchenko has switched to Democracy because Democracy is milder ... Try the brand of government Rita Hayworth uses! And then they'll say about you . . . she's lovely, she's engaging, she votes...
...Administration, which had repeatedly asked for much milder stand-by powers only to be ignored by the Republican Congress, was wholly unprepared for the sweeping powers concealed in the draft act. So far there is no need for them. Except in the aircraft industry, defense orders are generally small. For the first half of this year, military needs in steel totaled only 670.000 tons, about 1% of total U.S. production...
...Europe into the misery of one of the worst winters it had known in years. This time the story was different. All winter long, while arctic gusts set the U.S. ashivering, strong west winds from the warm Atlantic bathed Europe in welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam of the Tuileries gardens. Along the Seine...
...union was quickly rejected, for it would force Canada into the sterling bloc. Some Canadians suggested economic union with the U.S.-razing tariff walls and eventually tearing down the customs houses. This was politically impossible; in 1911 Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government was tossed out for proposing a milder trade reciprocity. Besides, economic union would almost certainly lead to political union...