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...speech (ghosted, according to hardened precedent, by his Government ministers), King George outlined parliamentary plans for the coming year. They included routine hopes for increased production and exports, plans to cut the armed forces, to grant independence to Burma, to nationalize the gas industry, and to revamp the criminal code. Tucked in among the expected announcements was one bombshell sentence which hit Tory, peer and commoner alike. "Legislation," said the King in his slightly halting voice, "will be introduced to amend the Parliament...
...Revamp a psychopathic personality...
...sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
...Send Us Coffee." But there was no time to revamp systems. To take the edge off the crisis, the U.S. threw in additional merchant ships to carry supplies. During the next 2½ months, the U.S. will send over 1,000,000 tons of food to Germany. But the Germans were a difficult people to help. When one of them was told last week that the U.S. is sending wheat, he sneered: "Wheat we've got plenty. Why don't you send us coffee...
Many an old-line Navy officer wouldn't have given it another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...