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...girl, "I'm going to count one, two, three, and your eyes will close and you'll go into a relaxed state," and she promptly went into a trance. Spiegel told her that her left forearm would become paralyzed and numb, arid that this condition would persist, even after she "came to," until he touched her elbow. When he ended the trance, the girl remained rooted before the receiver, her left arm numb and inert. After the usual wait for a hospital elevator, Spiegel walked into the laboratory and touched her elbow. Only then did she regain sensation...
...Speechwriter Richard Goodwin: "I want it to be very clear that this is a vote for my policy in Viet Nam." When the message went to Capitol Hill, it read: "This is not a routine appropriation. For each member of Congress who supports this request is also voting to persist in our effort to halt Communist aggression in South Viet...
...self-defense"; she is thus incapable of protecting other countries militarily from Communist aggression or infiltration. Furthermore, because numerous types of credit must be offered in exporting to these non-industrialized countries, trade is often difficult to engineer. And, in spite of racial and cultural affinities, bitter memories persist of Japanese exploitation and military control in World...
...Malaysia's ambassador to the United Nations then told the same forum that his country would continue to ask "active assistance" from Great Britain as long as "the Indonesians persist in their policy of agression, subversion, and outright military intervention...
...freedom of a brave people who are under attack that is controlled and that is directed from outside their country. We have no ambition there for ourselves. We seek no dominion. We seek no conquest. We seek no wider war. But we must all understand that we will persist in the defense of freedom, and our continuing actions will be those which are justified and those that are made necessary by the continuing aggression of others...