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...Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...
...came the dramatized announcement (with before-and-after movies) from the Mayo Clinic of wondrous results with two hormones: ACTH and cortisone. Hopes for miracle cures soared, along with sales of the hormones. Gradually it has become clear that the hormones do not cure rheumatoid arthritis; they suppress its worst symptoms until-as is the way with this baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some patients they produced swift...
...years U.S. citizens have looked with detachment, if not with distaste, on the efforts of colonial powers to suppress local agitations led by fanatic students demanding independence. Last week just such a situation faced the U.S. itself on blood-bought Okinawa, 330 miles south of Japan...
From Handicap to Holiness. Bishop Marling feels that the saints provide an especially rich field for the psychiatrist. For Catholic writers often show a misguided tendency to suppress neurotic elements in the saints' biographies. For though "the struggle for perfection . . .tends to a balanced character, to genuine psychological unity," there is no need to deny that many saints were neurotic. In Bishop Marling's view, "Many a saint has borne a neurosis to a holy death, and enjoys the honors of the altar precisely because, though handicapped by ignorance of its nature and source, he struggled valiantly against...
...Pennsylvania small towns whose very ordinary people all seem to lead extraordinary sex lives. O'Hara fans can now get, between hard covers, one of his minor magazine stories that proves that he can exercise his talent with his left hand. It also proves that he can suppress-at least for the space of 64 pages-his obsessive preoccupation with...