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...truth, the ex-Duce in his present physical condition could only be a figurehead. London's Daily Mail described him last week as "a spent force, prematurely aged, a pathetic, humbled, fearful figure." A report, allegedly from the Italian underground, said he was suffering from an intense nervous breakdown, apparently aggravated by old stomach ulcers. His skin had turned grey, his facial muscles sagged and sometimes his nervous fits were so violent that he had to be treated with morphine...
...what . . . about the fact that every war in our nation's history has been followed by a moral breakdown? . . . Can it reasonably be expected that the most scientific methods of killing and slaughter that are known to man and are being taught to this generation will not have their awful results after this...
...reported the National Opinion Research Center, of the University of Denver. Pollers found that: 55% believed future wars are inevitable; 14% think wars will be prevented "some day" but not without at least one more; a surprising 26% believed a permanent peace "likely" to come this time. The party breakdown: 30% of 1940 Democrats believe this is the last war; only 20% of 1940 Republicans think...
Clara Bow, the cinema's "It" girl of the late '20s, was recovering from a nervous breakdown on the California ranch where she lives with her husband Rex Bell...
Dawson concluded that more than a kitchen cleanup was needed. "These conditions," said he, "were merely a visible symptom of an administrative breakdown." He made a few recommendations: 1) superintendents should be "able hospital administrators" not necessarily experienced in mental hospitals; 2) food should be prepared under a dietitian, not a chef whose only experience has been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged...