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...dead city, hushed by the terror of a brutal massacre, was the capital of Cuba last week. Eight years of steadily increased repression had culminated in an ominous, apprehensive silence. The shutters and doors of Havana were bolted, the streets deserted save for soldiers patrolling and police squads riding around in cars. "The Tyrant," paunchy, pock-faced President Gerardo Machado y Morales, had proclaimed "a state of war" in his effort to break his countrymen's general strike against his regime. It had spread throughout the island in all businesses and professions (TIME, Aug. 14). Food was hard...
...experience, brings his 'ailment out of the shadows into the light of consciousness. A classic case is that described by the late Dr. W. H. H. Rivers, who succeeded in curing a young man stricken with claustrophobia in World War trenches by getting him to recall a childhood terror connected with a long passageway and a dog. Psychiatrists (including psychoanalysts) commonly supplement- recall with their science's standard instruments: suggestion, persuasion, analysis, rationalization. Claustrophobes who have tried to reason with their unreasoning fears, will appreciate the Times letter of one V. G. T.: "May I take this opportunity...
...moving moment came when grey-haired Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan unexpectedly rose to address the meeting. Able and popular, he had been ignored by the Board in preparing its economy order. Said he: "I forced myself on this program because I am living in terror of the effect of the economies on the public schools. As I study these economies hour after hour, day after day, my, terror grows...
...TOWER OF TERROR-Joseph I. Lawrence-Macaulay...
...Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only an occasional train...