Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might just make it. For while Robert Francis Kennedy is succeeding Lyndon Baines Johnson as the nation's most controversial politician, while his complexities and contradictions are the subject of passionate debate, he is also proving that many somebodies out there like him enough to vote for him. Last week, following up his victories in the Indiana and Washington, D.C., Democratic primaries, Kennedy scored a smashing success in Nebraska...
Hypnosis is surrounded by a persistent myth: whatever a subject says while in a trance represents the real, deep-down truth. Lawyers have always been wary of the claim, although lately some have changed their minds. On film and videotape, psychiatric sessions with murder defendants under the influence of hypnotism and so-called "truth drugs" are being shown in U.S. courtrooms (TIME, Dec. 29, April 12). Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston, New York's Dr. Herbert Spiegel warned that such evidence is dubious indeed...
...professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychiatrist Spiegel tested the cliches by choosing a volunteer who was "a normal, healthy neurotic like anyone else." While NBC-TV filmed the experiment for possible use in a documentary, Dr. Spiegel easily and quickly put his subject into a deep hypnotic trance. Next he told the man that he had important information about a major Communist plot to take over the television networks and radio stations. Dr. Spiegel provided no other information; he implied, however, that the subject could provide his own details and would not forget...
...Harris? Almost as soon as he was awake, the subject began talking about the plot. NBC's Frank McGee, who had been present throughout, tried to shake his story. But the more McGee questioned, the more elaborate the story became. Where had he heard about the plot? In a loft over a playhouse in Greenwich Village. What...
remember about the loft? There had been an old movie poster of Rin Tin Tin on the wall, and he and his friends had been drinking Miller High Life beer. McGee asked if a Jack Harris had been involved. The name was completely imaginary, yet soon the subject slipped it into the conversation, confessing that Harris had really been the ringleader, and was a big man who 'looks like he could kill...