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Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...physical examination reveals no abnormalities. An exercise tolerance test causes no pain. Results of laboratory tests are normal. Chest X rays and routine electrocardiograms give no indication of the disorder. Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers and sedatives do not relieve them. Bewildered, the doctor may tell his patient to go home and rest, only to have him stricken again there...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...
...question pertains to the excerpt from a letter written by T. H. White to Richard Burton regarding Camelot: "I hope it will be borozonic." I assume it is a word coined by White and am curious as to its meaning and origin...
...would like to conclude with a of recommendations: (1) concentration upon image-manipulation (2) At any future conference a friendly audience, include a deal more material similar to Lynd's analysis of the origin cold war, or J. David singer's of possible negotiated (3) Begin an adequately conceptual technical appraisal of the factors economic, military, political, and ) which are involved in the and which must be re-structured to bring about a stable process national interaction; (4) Focus Jor effort along the lines of arms control and eventual armament with correlated compromises; (5) Search for modes...