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...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...
Jealousy & Sensuality. Munch's development of his other theme-man's impotence before the power of ferocious womanhood-would seem ludicrous if it had not so obviously wrung anguish from the painter, driven him close to madness. The exact identification of the woman who so long tantalized Munch has never been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist...
After months of debate over foreign aid, Washington seemed tired of it all. In the mouths of Administration leaders the timeworn arguments for the program -e.g., military aid is "vital" to the defense of the free world-had become cliches, wrung dry of meaning from reiterated challenge, reiterated response. Last week some of the deep meaning of this high-minded, unprecedented, costly U.S. experiment came to life in terms of people, fears, hopes and dramatic ambitions. It was brought to life by a short, black-haired man in a double-breasted suit who landed at the Washington airport...
Before any free nation can press its hopes and aims, no matter how high-minded, into workable and acceptable form, they must first be wrung out in terms of politics. This was the process, with all of its charges and countercharges, conspiracies and compromises, that was at work last week as the U.S. attempted to wring out a workable policy for the Middle East. It was at work as U.S., Canadian and Indian delegates huddled and haggled on a new approach to Israel v. the Arabs in the gleaming corridors of the United Nations; it was at work as Democratic...
...Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...