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P: New England, and especially Massachusetts, stood out as exceptions to this year's overall U.S. pattern of moderate polio outbreaks (averaging 25% fewer cases than last year). Massachusetts had 1,200, more than ten times as many as at this time in 1954, and 36 deaths, in what state officials conceded to be a "mild epidemic." Other New England states had only moderate increases.

P: Communist brainwashing in Korea may have delayed-action effects even among G.I. ex-prisoners who remained loyal, said Psychiatrists Peter S. Santucci and George Winokur of Washington University. The suggestions that the prisoners received during indoctrination by the enemy, they said, could make impression enough to set up severe conflicts and cause actual mental illness after their return to the U.S. In one case, an Army sergeant who was too confused to answer many questions by U.S. interrogators became ill because he feared that people in his home town would reject him as a traitor.

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