Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galard-Terraube, who was the only woman nurse on the battlefield. (Now 39, Geneviève is a retiring Paris housewife and mother of two children, married to a former French paratrooper.) They were poignant get-togethers, for Dienbienphu holds as deep emotional implications for Frenchmen today as Verdun or Waterloo did for earlier generations...
...North American patients the new drugs that were soon to be widely known as tranquilizers. In so doing, they started the most dramatic and hopeful revolution in the long, dolorous history of mental illness. They are still at it. Berlin-born Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann, who introduced chlorpromazine at Verdun Protestant Hospital outside Montreal, is barnstorming at meetings called to find ways of developing still more and better drugs. New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline, who introduced reserpine at Rockland State Hospital, is in Iran, fomenting a psychiatric revolution there. Just before he left the U.S., Dr. Kline...
...impact on society, he has designed new U.S.A.F.I. courses that relate military and civilian technology back to 1750. To teach soldiers "what society thinks of them," he set up another course on 19 war novels, from Stendhal's The Red and the Black to Jules Remains' Verdun. "You sure are educating us," says one of his majors, who has read six of the novels...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Verdun: The End of the Nightmare," a report on W.W. I's bloodiest military engagement...
...Handel and Mozart, played by young German musicians in the 12th century cathedral that was shredded by German Big Berthas in 1916. Many of the visitors were invited to meals in French homes; even when they had to speak in sign language, the lesson was plain. The price of Verdun, as a German high school student put it, was not eternal hatred but eternal awareness that "we can help prevent the repetition of these terrible happenings...