Nikita Khrushchev's war of nerves was plainly having an effect on the U.S. citizenry. Across the nation last week, there was endless conversation about the threat of nuclear war. There was apprehension and an edge of sadness as men and women looked at their children and wondered about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"—fear of the atom). A motorcade of...
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