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...voting to oust Communists from public office.* An influential member of anti-Communist President Dutra's party, he barely won his seat last January over Communist Candido Portinari, Brazil's greatest painter. His own anti-Red views are well known. Besides, Industrialist-Economist Simonsen is a top-rank spokesman for São Paulo's bustling industry, and Communists are bad for business...
Half the people who call on doctors are sick in mind as well as in body. To describe their trouble, doctors now use the word psychosomatic (from the Greek psyche, mind, and soma, body). Last week a top-rank woman practitioner of psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, published a fascinating book on the subject (Mind and Body; Random House...
...Unsafe Condition." Even the setting was special. To Moscow, the Central Committee summoned a hundred or so top-rank philosophers, professors, theoreticians, for a nine-day conference. Assembled, they learned that the subject of discussion was to be Aleksandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Only a year before, it had been awarded a 100,000 ruble Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois...
...Stern is a woman of consequence in the U.S.S.R. She holds the Stalin Prize for scientific accomplishment, is director of the Moscow Institute of Physiology and half a dozen other research enterprises, has nearly 300 scientific publications to her credit. She can boast the standard trappings of a top-rank Russian scientist: a fine laboratory of her own, a big automobile, the right to take a Black Sea vacation...
...Norman Burdett Nash, rector of 91-year-old St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.), looked his part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...