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...many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three, his mother 1) breast feeds him; 2) postpones any toilet training; 3) carries him, papoose-like, while she works. Corporal punishment is almost unknown. By the time the Okinawan is five, says Moloney, he has such a sense of security that his mental foundation is sturdy enough to survive catastrophe...
...cannot sympathize with all the breast-beating and crying of mea culpa over our use of the atomic bomb. Granted that it is a weapon sufficiently terrible to make the abolition of war advisable, is its use one whit worse than the piecemeal destruction of cities and civilian centers by bombing and fire raids...
...electric with resentment. Thirty thousand Mexicans stood silent and dry-eyed as pyjama-clad workmen bore past them the 27 flag-draped coffins. Behind the coffins trudged women, heads covered and bowed, some with armloads of white lilies, others with dark rebozos draped over nursing child and naked breast. At the cemetery an angry, white-faced priest shouted: "Long live Christian democracy...
This month Mamadou Kane, accused of collaboration with the enemy, stood before a Paris court of justice. For two hours he wept, beat his breast, gestured royally, proclaimed his innocence like a prophet...
Harry Truman, Gridiron Target No. 1 for the first time, saw a newsman dressed in double-breasted grey suit, handkerchief sticking from his breast pocket, singing Wanting You to Joe Stalin. What the real Harry Truman had to say in reply was-by Gridiron custom-off the record...