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...closer look at the new book they bring home to fill an empty moment in a child's life; and they might worry a little too (along with all of us who work on children's books and worry a lot) how the child will receive and react to the new book...
...there are individual and highly variable reactions. A man who has had brain concussion cannot tolerate alcohol for a long time afterward. Others cannot tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs. It is not that the drugs themselves are dangerous, but that individuals with abnormal sensitivity react dangerously. Steady use of barbiturates is a more predictable peril, says Dr. Meerloo: it makes the midbrain more sensitive to the intoxication of chronic alcoholism, and many alcoholics, far from being put to sleep by barbiturates, become wildly excited after taking them...
...aftereffect of infectious disease, Dr. Meerloo notes. Or it may follow exhaustion or starvation. A probable precipitant is the combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear of getting drunk and looking ridiculous, increases the danger that it will...
...launching of the satellite will have rendered a signal service to the cause of freedom if only we react strongly and intelligently to its implications. Let us resolve, once and for all, that the absolute necessity of maintaining our superiority in military strength must always take priority over the understandable desire to reduce our taxes...
...satellite launching may serve the cause of freedom, Nixon said, "if only we react strongly and intelligently to its implications...