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Last week two British doctors announced a discovery that may do more good than warnings: a milder electrical substitute for shock treatments. The new system, called electronarcosis (with which U.S. investigators have also experimented), does not produce convulsions, and has given "distinctly promising" results in treating schizophrenia...
Russia wanted to order the Dutch to withdraw immediately from all territory seized in the current hostilities. For his proposal Gromyko rallied only one other vote: predictable Poland's. So Gromyko strung along with the milder U.S. view...
...Robert V. Seliger, Johns Hopkins' famed alcoholism specialist, first quieted the patient with sedatives, then fed into his veins two "quarts of a mixed solution of sugar, salt, vitamin B-1 and insulin. The hallucinations became milder; the patient went through the motions of tending bar, smoking (flicking imaginary ashes into an imaginary tray), and after a time began to repair an imaginary watch...
...Ahlmann has been collecting evidence from a variety of sources: temperature records, glaciers, trees, fish. In the Scandinavian countries, he says, the winters have been getting milder since the 19th Century. The change for the better amounts to only a degree or two, but that is enough to make all the difference in countries that fringe the Arctic...
...bound for Marseilles with a distinguished prisoner. Sixty-six-year-old Abd el-Krim, who had brilliantly led Berbers and Arabs against Spaniards and Frenchmen in the Riff country of Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself and his retinue of 40 under the protection of Egypt's King Farouk...