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Gwartney then went on planting his suggestions: that the urge to cough could be resisted, that she would feel much better if it was. In the course of three hypnotic treatments, he suggested that she could suppress the cough for longer and longer intervals, starting with one minute and building up to a full hour. On the second day, the girl was instructed to cough only when absolutely necessary; on the third day she was discharged...
...Gwartney is quick to point out that hypnotic treatment did not "cure" the cough, but merely planted in the patient's mind the idea that she could suppress it herself. The girl still coughs occasionally, since there is a physical cause for the symptom, but her own knowledge that she can stop if she wishes has prevented long paroxysms...
...fewer than 1% of the manufacturers approached by Shaw actually carried through with productivity plans. He blamed the lack of interest on trade associations, such as the French Women's Garment Industry Federation, which would rather suppress competition and preserve high profit margins than raise wages and lower prices by increasing employees' output. After three years in which he had not once seen France's anticartel laws enforced, Shaw said French enterprise is more fettered than free. His prescription: some U.S.-style "trustbusting" to dissolve restrictive cartels...
...husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live in a country where arrogance and the Herrenvolk ideal can suppress honesty and freedom...
...being dominated by distant Karachi, 1,000 miles across India. Emerging triumphant in East Pakistan was the United Front of fat, cantankerous, 83-year-old Fazlul Huq, whom the government ousted last year as provincial chief minister of East Pakistan on the ground of separatist "treasonable activities." Unable to suppress him, the Moslem League now decided to join him. The League and Huq's United Front will form a coalition under amiable Premier Mohammed Ali, and Huq's men will be represented in the Cabinet...