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Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. Raab accuses U.S. heart researchers of having neglected the relationships be tween emotional states, biochemical processes and heart disease. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), patron saint of Rus sian medicine, was one of the early work ers in this field, says Dr. Raab, and the U.S.S.R. is now putting his theories into vigorous practice...
...Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel's chillingly ironic painting, all the author's characters stumble into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack...
Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...