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...maze of Paris traffic, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's limousine swerved, toppled a pedestrian, got smacked by a car behind. Alexei Pavlov, Russia's Ambassador to France, suggested a way to prevent similar accidents: let Soviet cars be escorted through the streets at 75 m.p.h., just like in Moscow...
Never Mind Your Manners. Almost as extreme as his bitterness against the Freudians is Salter's veneration of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist who coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...more conventional psychologists who say that Salter's cures prove nothing about the soundness of his theory, Salter retorts that the best proof of a theory is how it works in practice. In his own practice, Pavlov's theory has worked well -well enough to give Author Salter great self-confidence...
...might just as well have been in Urdu. To the delegates it was important only that it had been made by a Communist, China's Kuo Mo-jo.* The seekers after "peace"-of the Soviet-Russian variety-perfectly exemplified a lesson of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: to an artificial stimulus, they had made a conditioned response...
...Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more...