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...session. The slate would be clean; there would be an infusion of new blood. With power almost evenly divided, neither Democrats nor Republicans would be able to pass the buck. The 78th Congress might be caught up in even more bitter brawls; it might establish a new pattern of responsibility. The U.S. people hoped for the best...
...self-consciousness, social adjustment, imagination, etc. The reasoning, self-conscious cortex is integrated via thousands of millions of nerve cells with the emotional thalamus, so that a normal mind is a more or less harmonious mixture of intellect and emotion. But sometimes this integration takes on a fixed, unhealthy pattern: foresight becomes anxiety, anxiety becomes fear, and the psychotic victim may head for lunacy unless treated by psychoanalysis, shock therapy (e.g., with electricity or insulin) or-as a last resort -psychosurgery...
...Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award...
...button again. Wrote Boddy in his daily Views of the News column: " . .. Another great movement will be a mechanized force dispatched from Gibraltar across the narrow channel to Tangier and from there along the coast of North Africa toward Tripoli. Now there you have the pattern of a possible Allied offensive...
Visitors at Manhattan's Perls Galleries last week walked into two small rooms full of blood. Blood trickled over bare bosoms and in a pattern of veins up & down the stomach of a lady, whose only leg was a gigantic sausage that tapered off into a yawning volcano. Blood also oozed from the terrifying eye of an outsize male head. Blood was conspicuous in nearly all Painter Frederick Haucke's 20 nightmarish oils...