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Principally, sex and food. But the Army Quartermaster Corps, which has studied mosquitoes intimately in hopes of crossing soldiers off the mosquito menu, has discovered that the insects are complex psychologically, and react to a long list of stimuli. Last week it released its findings...
...From the Communist-dominated Polish Government, which had chewed over the U.S. demand that Poland hold a free election, came a tart reply: stay out of Poland's internal affairs. But the Poles knew that, however angrily they might react to U.S. demands for democratic government, the U.S. would keep on insisting on them-even though the fight might be lost...
...Mess with Mr. In-Between." In 1943 George was made secretary of the Democratic National Party. Roosevelt trusted him even if he did not react to George's humor. "I am exactly 100% certain of his loyalty," wrote F.D.R. At the 1944 Democratic convention, when most smart politicians realized they might be nominating two Presidents, George latched on to Harry Truman and helped smooth his way to the No. 2 nomination. Then he helped draft the first speech for the vice-presidential candidate...
...doctor abruptly announces, "This is cancer," his patients will react in many ways. Eight out of ten, says Dr. Lund, might consent to surgery but "of these half might never forgive the doctor for his brutality." One patient out of ten might "believe erroneously that cancer is never cured and therefore decide to have no treatment. The other might be so upset mentally that [he] leaves the doctor and goes to a charlatan in whose hands all hope of cure will be lost...
...pain was not only tolerable (in normal deliveries) but was "lost . . . in a kind of ecstasy and pride. . . ." His analysis of feminine psychology borrows from Dr. Helene Deutsch of Boston, a temperate Freudian who notes in her two-volume Psychology of Women that an "increasing number of women" react strangely to the "perfect painless delivery" produced by modern anesthetics. They feel cheated, disappointed and "empty," sometimes think the baby is not theirs but that of another woman...