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...volunteer who talks with people like this finds it hard to know how to react. As Pitzele has said, "it is difficult to decide whether to contradict the patient, suggest that he means something else, or pretend to believe the statements and continue the conversation on that basis. As most volunteers are considerably younger than the average patients, they are reluctant flatly to contradict the patients' statements--a discourtesy in any case--although it seems impossible to agree. I think that an all too frequent reaction is to try turning preposterous statement into jokes and to leave it at that...
...example, how could, should, or would the U.S. react to a Soviet ultimatum that tomorrow it would begin to take over Western Europe, one nation per month. In the hypothetical ultimatum, the Soviets decide to help the President make up his mind by picturing the consequences of either limited retaliation or all all-out strike. The first, according to the Soviet note, would bring devastation to each country where it was applied, and hence would likely be rejected by the countries themselves; the second would elicit all-out retailiation by Russia's ICBM and "SAC" forces against vulnerable...
...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
...Gurion's blast has touched off an embarrassed dispute among U.S. Jewish leaders about their relationship to Israel. First to react was Philadelphia-born Rabbi Israel Goldstein, 64, former president of the American Jewish Congress. Stung by Ben-Gurion's reproaches, Goldstein stayed on after last fortnight's congress, the first top-ranking U.S. Jew to settle in Israel. But in the U.S., liberal and conservative rabbis alike condemned Ben-Gurion's theology as "erroneous." The American Jewish Committee declared itself "grieved and shocked" by the suggestion that Jews have an obligation to emigrate to Israel...
...seem to be basing our policy on some effuse concept of national dignity," Einaudi criticized. If Castro has been seeking the breaking of diplomatic relations, he commented, "I see no reason to react with a policy that does just what he wanted us to do in the first place...