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Show PANIC PITCH Americans Ready to Go Off Deep End People of the U. S. are conducting conduct-ing their day-by-day activities in a state of mind that is separated from a condition of acute panic by only the merest veil of self-restraint, says Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith of the International Committee for Mental Hygiene. Any day now a phony rumor of sudden war or even of sea mon sters invading New York harbor might produce wholesale panic. Many Americans are ripe to go off the deep end from just such a scare, no matter how fantastic it may be, Dr. Fremon-Smith contends. The reason people might be easily panicked is the widespread worry, anxiety or fear over the possibilities of atomic war or of depression. |