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...mother's death," writes the bishop, "when she was four and a half, she admits that she became reserved, timid and inclined to weep without cause. At six, she 'enjoyed' melancholy. At eleven, her sister, Pauline, her second mother, entered [the Carmelite order], A serious nervous breakdown resulted, with fits of catalepsy, hallucinations and delusions. Treatment failed; she did not recognize her own sister. A cure came suddenly when the statue of our Lady smiled at her. The propensity to tears and headache continued; she loved to be alone. At twelve, scruples set in; black moods followed...
...Commitments." As such, said Dulles, Nasser's exploitation of the canal was "inadmissible." To let the seizure "go unchallenged would be to encourage a breakdown of the international fabric upon which the security and the well-being of all peoples depend. And the question, Mr. President, as we've agreed, is not whether something should be done about this Egyptian act-but what should be done about...
Colorado (20): Last week Harriman was making personal calls to Kefauver delegates, without notable success. The present breakdown: 12½ for Stevenson, five for Harriman, 2½ undecided. Of the fence sitters, one leans to Stevenson, 12 to Harriman...
More remarkable were 21 patients with radiation damage to the skin and breakdown of surrounding tissues which had been going on for three months to 30 years. Fifteen of these showed "good or excellent healing of previously unhealed areas...
...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...