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...student subsequently suffered a mental breakdown and at present is in a mental hospital...
Federal Power Commission "represents the outstanding example in the Federal Government of the breakdown of the administrative process." According to a recent estimate, it would take FPC, under present procedures, until A.D. 2043 to catch up with its work, even if the staff were tripled in size...
...activity, as the body's defensive mechanism reacts to the unknown stimulus. Blood and intracranial pressures rise, perspiration increases, muscles contract sharply, flow of saliva and gastric juices is radically reduced, and digestion ceases. Even short-term exposure to high-intensity noise-above 135 decibels-can cause a breakdown in the ear's sensitive basilar membrane...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...