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...debate on a bill to revise the Atomic Energy Act. His move so irritated a minority of liberals that they launched into a 13-day filibuster. Knowland, who loves a good fight, was unbothered. One morning during the filibuster he arose from his office couch after a few hours' sleep and rushed forth announcing happily: "Boy, will we give 'em a fight today." In the end, the filibuster was broken-but the Senate had wasted a lot of time...
...been nagging me for weeks, picking at me and driving me nuts, and I couldn't stand it any longer." So, she said, as police examined husband Marion's fatal neck wound, she got out the shotgun, killed her husband as he lay on the couch, and wounded herself superficially in the arm and stomach in a suicide attempt-firing three shots in all. Satisfied with her story, the cops neglected to complete the normal crime-lab studies of the murder scene, fingerprints and other clues, arrested Violet Sill for murder...
Dave Weyer neglected nothing. He found not three shot patterns, but four: one in the bathroom doorjamb and the bathroom itself, a second in the living-room ceiling, a third in the couch, the fourth in the pine-paneled hall. Then a defense pathologist discovered bits of flesh on the ceiling, found fragments of Violet's jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch...
...times, University policy has leant credence to these ill-defined feelings. One incident about which virtually all students are misinformed and about which they are all very vehement is the now notorious couch ban. On the surface it appeared like nothing more than a senseless and arbitrary use of power by the administration. Suddenly from the office of the manager of student residences came a pronouncement forbidding the use of couches in the rooms. After widespread protest, this was changed to "required registration" of couches. It is understood by some that the whole incident was merely a testing of strength...
...often confused. (Adding to the confusion, some experts hold that the disorders are really one and the same.) Exceptionally common in the armed forces under stress of battle. Only treatment : psychotherapy-an understanding general practitioner can handle mild cases, but stubborn ones may need the analyst's couch...