Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks with the Russians. The new President must make up his mind whether to frame a State of the Union address of his own. He has to decide exactly how, if at all, he should rework the budget inherited from Lyndon Johnson. The continuing Middle East crisis calls for patient, imaginative attention. Not least, in Dr. Moynihan's special preserve, the White House must decide which urban problems it can most effectively attack, and how the assault can best be mounted...
...life. The interrogator may alternate kindness with brutality; a strange bond, which does not exclude a measure of affection, develops between captor and captive. Write Psychiatrists Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr. and Harold Wolff: "The interrogator is dealing with a man who might be looked upon as an intentionally created patient; the interrogator has all of the advantages and opportunities which accrue to a therapist dealing with a patient in desperate need of help...
...desperado could easily cause a crash or midair explosion that would kill all aboard. Only six attempts have failed, all on flukes. Sheriff's deputies shot out the tires of a skyjacked Continental Boeing 707 trying to take off from El Paso. Daniel Richards, 33, an Ohio mental patient who tried to commandeer a Delta flight suddenly dropped his gun, curled up in his seat and began weeping. He said he was "dying of cancer" and did not care what happened. Two weeks ago aboard another Delta flight, a pilot refused to obey the orders of a skyjacker...
...influenza outbreak, the symptoms vary widely. Some specialists in epidemics and infectious diseases are convinced that the virus labeled A2-Hong Kong-68 is proving more variable than most preceding strains. For one thing, many victims describe symptoms that seem conspicuously different from those of the patient next door. One man may suffer a three-day bout of sniffling, coughing, headache and muscle twinges, with little fever, while his neighbor may run a high fever, return to work after a miserable week in bed, and promptly suffer a disabling relapse...
Johnson, though elated that a breakthrough had been achieved under his aegis, warned that the U.S. would have to be patient and that "we must pursue peace as diligently as we have fought aggression." Nixon, equally elated because the negotiations can now turn from niggling procedures to matters of real substance, also expressed his pleasure...