Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early days had been allowed to sling the ball out of a windmilling windup, were eventually held down to a single rotation of the arm. As the ball was hardened to speed up the game, gloves appeared, and softball finally settled down as a small-scale, frenetic version of America's national game...
...most of the independent visitors were aware they weren't seeing the real Moscow, but rather a glossed-over, cleaned-up version. So the effort to paint Russia as the land of milk-and-honey was a failure...
Education: honor student at Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques; served six months in the army during World War II, and another six months chopping trees in the Chantiers de Jeunesse, Pétain's version of the Hitler Youth. Joined the Resistance, preparing schemes for economic harassment of the Germans; at 23 got the year's highest grades in competitive exams for appointment to the elite corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a backstage group that furnishes France with many of her top diplomats, financiers and civil servants...
Zurich's broad, winding streets were plastered last week with cryptic blue and white signs-a Swiss artist's stylized version of the Greek letter psi. The ψA sign had been adopted by the city as an emblem to guide 2,000 visiting psychiatrists from 58 nations to their scattered meeting places. Occasion: the Second International Congress for Psychiatry (the first was held in Paris in 1945). Since the theme was "the present status of our knowledge about the group of schizophrenias," Zurich was an appropriate meeting place, for it was here that the late Psychiatrist Paul...
...Latest on Drugs. Jung notwithstanding, drugs and other physical treatments, notably a new version of shock therapy (see below), got the big share of attention. Main points...