Word: rats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlook of Cambridge Public Health and Cambridge Visiting Nurses is more progressive. Edna Skelley, the director of Public Health Nursing for Cambridge, outlined the tradition of service of the Public Health nurse. Once inside the home, regardless of initial service request (for example, rat bite or sickness), the Public Health nurse surveys the needs of the home, initiates discussion on these needs and does referral. Miss Skelley made it clear that although the majority of the caseworkers were Catholic, personal tastse and religious affiliations were subordinated to service. Since family planning is central to familial health, referrals to birth control...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). George Segal is the chief rodent in King Rat...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
Neurochemist Georges Ungar based his work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar...
...Connections. After many such tests, Ungar concluded that the fear had indeed been transferred and that the degree of transfer depended on the amount of extract injected. It was also affected by the training of the donor rats-longer training produced better transfer-and the interval between training and removal of the donor-rat brain; brain removal too soon after training apparently prevented the transfer material from fully developing...