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...hear again what it was like to grow up bright and sensitive in Lakewood, Ohio. His Stateside Army experi ence during World War II includes the familiar rich, condescending WASP and bullying lieutenant. Later comes a dis satisfying family life in Detroit. Adul tery and divorce are followed by New York sex-and-guilt games and the price one pays in lost work time. For the man nered fictional version, see Gold's novel Salt...
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Though they are not yet available for prescription, and are not likely to be for a long time, "Abbott's memory pills" are the subject of growing enthusiasm among brain researchers. Until last week, the only evidence of the pills' ef fectiveness had been supplied by experi ments with rats; now there is encour aging preliminary evidence, reports Psy chiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, that the pills may help to mend the fraying mem ory of aging humans...
...Brit ain in 1947, so did Sikkim. But to the late Maharajah, freedom brought more problems than profit. One day in 1949, several thousand peasants swarmed around the blue and white royal palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent in troops and a dewan, or political officer. Ever since, India has handled Sikkim's foreign affairs and defense...
...permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...