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...published secret papers showing a strong anti-Indian bias in Washington's handling of the India-Pakistan war. While hardly of the same magnitude, his story about Ambassador Arthur Watson getting drunk on a commercial airliner also produced red faces-and no denials. That was only a pinprick compared with his ITT charge. Anderson reported that the Justice Department settled an antitrust suit against ITT, on terms relatively favorable to the firm, at about the same time that ITT promised a contribution to help pay for the Republican Convention...
...Certainly not the South Koreans. To be sure, they would like firmer guarantees of U.S. support in the unlikely event that North Korea's Kim II Sung decides to move from his pinprick attacks along the 38th parallel to an all-out assault. But they will be receiving some $750 million from Washington over the next five years to modernize their 620,000-man military force-and to ease the pain of the withdrawal, possibly by 1975, of the 42,000 U.S. troops remaining on their soil...
Even the slightest, sharpest pinprick or the pulling of a single hair activates not one nerve fiber but many. Any one fiber, it appears, may be sensitive to more than one kind of painful stimulus. The fibers are not all alike but fall into two main classes, some that are microscopically thin and others that are relatively thick. The fine-fiber circuits can actuate the heavy-fiber circuits, which may reinforce or prolong the sensation of pain. So charting the pathways of pain-from the surface pinprick through the relays of the nervous system to parts of the brain where...
...piecing together this story, frequently through quotations from Erne's outraged letters to her mother, British Biographer Mary Lutyens goes beyond mere sex, or the lack of it, to the daily arena of a marriage gone irretrievably bad. She examines relentlessly the small social grievances, the resentful pinprick rivalries that gradually engulf and demean everyone concerned. In the orgiastic 1960s, Ruskin's sexual abstinence would be regarded for Effie as a fate only slightly better than death. Effie lived in an age inclined to view "all that" more as a duty than a cheerful privilege, however...
Culture Block. For the Negro doctor in the U.S. today, this is a pinprick hardly worth remarking. He bears the scars of many deeper cuts. He is accustomed to being rebuffed by medical schools, by medical colleagues (especially hospital staff members and administrators), by medical societies, by white patients-and even by black patients, many of whom think a Negro doctor is good enough for their sniffles but not for their major complaints. The cumulative effect is that the number of black doctors, relative to the Negro population, is declining. The nation has only 7,000 Negro physicians. If there...