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...Analysts. In the hierarchy of psychiatric treatment, ranging from a single $5 (or free) clinic visit to a $25,000 lifetime course, the luxury trade is psychoanalysis.* Concentrated mainly in neurotic Manhattan, psychoanalysis is split into at least a dozen schools, from orthodox Freudians to socially conscious Horneyans (leader: Dr. Karen Horney), who dispute Freud's idea that sex is everything and put more emphasis on environment. Its big-league practitioners include Dr. Franz Alexander, who directs the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg and Dr. Lawrence Kubie, fashionable Park Avenue analysts; Drs. William and Karl Menninger...
...still clinging to its first dream, had signed almost a score of treaties* for air travel and landing rights. But Mexico put off the U.S. with plenty of argument, last and most clinching of which was the fact that opportunistic Britain had just signed an agreement with Argentina to split 50-50 on passengers, cargo, and flights passing from one to the other. The U.S. had offered no such deal to Neighbor Mexico...
They ran him as a dummy to split the cocklebur vote for the opposing faction; but Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...
...Annihilation. His message was soon clear enough. The dashing young general, hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...
...beam of its antimonopolistic course in the North Atlantic, CAB turned down Pan American World Airways' bid to keep the whole Pacific to itself, followed the detailed advice of its examiners (TIME, Sept. 10) to split it up with Northwest Airlines, Inc. Biggest pieces...