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...Your article on dianetics is on the whole a capable and lucid job of reporting on a topic of great significance. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that . . . the specter of hypnotism was allowed to rear its ugly head in your article-when you neglect to state specifically that precise and positive precautions are always taken in each dianetic therapy session to prevent the patient from slipping even accidentally into a trance...
...Calcutta, three people were killed when police fired on a Communist demonstration. In Bombay, scores were injured during a Red-provoked riot. In Hyderabad, the Nizam barely escaped injury when a hand grenade thrown at his car failed to explode. And in Madras, a government spokesman announced that the specter of famine "is already sitting on a million thresholds...
Down at the end of the room the library clock began to strike little needles of sound. Vag counted them absentmindedly . . . seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten o'clock. The idea sank in slowly. Suddenly Vag sat bolt upright. How could he have been day-dreaming? The specter of examination welled up in his imagination in all its horror. The smug fat text and the cruel purple type on the assignment sheet seemed to be deriding him with silent mockery. Vag tore the ticket stubs to shreds, clenched his teeth, and read...
...Military aid for the uneasy Philippines, facing the rising specter of Chinese Communism to the north and west, and threatened by the possible Communist occupation of Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...
...manufactured goods about 5% and the total cost of living 1.1%. In short, prices which had gyrated upward in giddy, uneven swings were coming down in an orderly manner. The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter...