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School Phobia. In most ages and in many communities, oldsters would have prescribed a dose of strap oil for Fred and let it go at that. But Boston has become a hub for child psychiatry, and at the center Fred and his mother found sympathetic help. His trouble was common enough: "school phobia," the psychiatrists and social workers called it. But they well knew that while the complaint may be common, the cause is different in each case...
...cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large, has 20,000.) While in jail at the "disposition of the executive," political prisoners are treated reasonably well. In "interrogation" sessions, however, police often use torture. The accepted procedure is to strap the nude victim to a marble table, douse him with a bucket of cold water, and prod the eyelids and other sensitive parts of the body with a hot electric wire...
...Lisbon. To the staring navvies it must have looked rather like the corpse of a drowned man, bloated and discolored. In fact, the man was alive, though drowning inwardly of dropsy and so weak that he could scarcely move a finger. There was nothing for it but to strap him in an armchair and hoist him over the side like any common lading. As the winch turned and the invalid rose lurching, the sailors and dockmen burst into jeering laughter at the pitiful figure...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...
...Atlanta. With twelve brothers & sisters, he grew up in a stern, religious home. Father was a Presbyterian, mother a Methodist, and the full text of the Bible had been read aloud in the home twice before Dick was 13. Justice was dealt with a peachtree switch and a leather strap, and Dick still remembers the time his mother whipped him "until the blood came...