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...bomb stems from its very nature. Because it is so focused and so restricted in its effects, its opponents say, NATO generals might be too quick to use it if the Soviets attacked, thereby causing Moscow to retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. Thus it might become the catalyst for escalating a conventional war into a nuclear confrontation. Says retired General Wolf von Baudissin, who served as chief of NATO's planning staff: "There are already too many new technologies that threaten stability over the next decade. The only solution is to control armaments programs before production starts...
Walker, 39, is a psychiatrist. These four, and six other images, began to elicit comments from his patients, often providing him with a catalyst for therapeutic talk, an opening to the patient's preoccupations. Soon Walker began asking whether any of the photographs stirred an emotional response. "People expressed feelings," he says, "and at appropriate moments I could break through initial resistance and get to the heart of their problem." One of Walker's patients, a man in his 30s, complained of chest pains and feared heart attacks, even though cardiologists could find nothing wrong with him. Walker...
...which brought the baby Tarzan to the jungle; we don't see him learning how to survive in the wilds or forging his bonds of friendship with the animals. In the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies, jungle adventure was the main feature. Jane was simply a pretty face, a catalyst for Tarzan's heroics...
...early catalyst for the Christian schools movement was the Supreme Court's 1962 decision in Engel vs. Vitale, leading to a ban on prayer and, as practically interpreted in the public schools, to virtual elimination of religious discussion in schools. Another was 1954's Brown vs. The Board of Education, which inspired the establishment of a number of Southern Christian schools as "segregation academies" for white students...
...college students was one of concerned interest, but they expressed almost none of the spirit of activism. "I would sense that few of us knew much about Blacks, but there was a great sense of social duty. We were ripe for a civil rights movement," Rosenthal says. An important catalyst was the 1954 Supremem Court decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, which enlarged many of the issues for the Cambridge denizens...