Word: panic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown, trying to turn the Communism issue against Nixon, claims that the former Vice President "is dealing in panic," that Nixon is simply rereading the same script that got him elected to Congress in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. "Clichés like this went out with 'whizbang' and the Stutz Bearcat," cries Brown. But Pat is careful to advocate an expansion of anti-Communism teaching in the schools "in a nonhysterical atmosphere...
...indisputably right when he said: "Few bills have had so varied a legislative history." In the end. it was not Kefauver's three-year investigation of the drug industry that put the reform legislation over, but the national shock over the thalidomide disaster (TIME. Aug. 10) and panic over the possibility that "it might happen here...
...panic about the Soviet buildup in Cuba? Considering the fact that the U.S. has missile, bomber and military advisory groups stretching from England to Iran and from Okinawa to Southeast Asia, it is little wonder that the Soviets are anxious to get a little foothold of their own in "our" hemisphere...
...Brown hammered away at the 20,000 known new cases and 4,000 deaths annually in the U.S. If there had been only one-fourth as many cases of disease and death due to smallpox, typhus, plague or malaria, he said, there would have been virtual panic: "All the medical and public health resources of the nation would have been mustered." Why had syphilis been allowed to make such a comeback after the near knockout of the 19503? Dr. Brown answered his own question...
...soldiers were panic-stricken and hysterical. They ordered me to drive them 'out of this dirty mess.' "I tried to explain to them that the car would be certain death and that standing there in full view was also ridiculous. At this moment one of them was shot in the leg. Instead of sobering them, this caused more panic...