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...prisoner was Lieut. Commander Richard A. Stratton, 35, a U.S. Navy fighter pilot from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga who was downed over the North last Jan. 5. His Pavlovian performance in Hanoi-witnessed last month by American Freelance Photographer Lee Lockwood and reported last week in LIFE-raised fears that the Communists were once again resorting to the inhuman brainwashing techniques whose widespread use during the Korean War horrified the world. U.S. Ambassadorat-Large W. Averell Harriman warned that "it would be a matter of the gravest concern" if that were the case, and the State Department demanded that Hanoi allow...
Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...
...played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra, or by a piano with a vocalist chiming in, caused equal trouble. Eventually the doctors were ready to start "extinction therapy"-a sort of reverse Pavlovian conditioning in which a patient is trained not to respond to a particular stimulus...
Homicide is only one of Kirby's quirks. Upstairs he conducts choir practice for a collection of speak-your-weight machines, reasoning that machines that talk ought to be able to sing a cappella. He also dotes on Pavlovian dogs, and his reflexes are conditioned accordingly. "Now he has to have a little ping every time he sets down to a meal," his mother complains, pinging...
...battle-scarred veteran with two wars to his credit, Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, 43, has developed a Pavlovian response to the sound of gunfire. He was practically weaned Up Front.* A downy-cheeked sergeant in World War II, he drafted the immortal dogfaces Willie and Joe, followed up in 1952 with a sketch-board tour of combat in Korea. Sooner or later he was sure to wind up in South Viet Nam, and last week Cartoonist Mauldin was once more up to his ears in his natural element...