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...long evening meeting, before a surprisingly wide-awake audience, by Dr. William Dement, 31, a research fellow in psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. While a member of Physiologist Nathaniel Kleitman's research team at the University of Chicago, Dr. Dement had helped to settle an age-old question: Is dreaming continuous during sleep? The answer is no: it is intermittent. The beginning of a dream is signaled by brainwave changes shown on the electroencephalogram and by rapid eye movements...
...Butter Issue. With all their problems oldsters can vote (and now make up 20% of the electorate). So can the increasing numbers of budget-pressed young adults who, busy raising large families, feel the extra burden of carrying the heavy medical expenses of elderly parents and relatives. Result: the age-old problem of old age has become a red-hot 1960 election issue...
...Your April 18 article on "The Catholic Issue" was most discouraging. You seem to fan the age-old myths of separation of church and state to the point where the problem is distorted beyond its original intent. If Kennedy is to be barred because he is a Roman Catholic, I suggest we throw out all Roman Catholics from those governmental agencies where Roman influence conflicts with Protestant ideas (i.e., Health, Education and Welfare...
...from $651 million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More important, Love has shown his fellow textilemen that high productivity and low prices can whip the industry's age-old feast-or-famine cycle. U.S. textilemen this year expect to pile another 5% sales gain on last year's increase of 12%. Right now, unfilled orders outrun inventories by a healthy 5 to 1; even so, wholesale prices are 8% below the 1947-49 average...
...hard line against President Eisenhower's personal peace campaign ("Good-will tours are an inadequate substitute for solid policies"), attacks Administration defense policy ("The Republicans believe money to be more important than military security"), calls for a full-speed drive into space. It slams the anti-inflation policy ("Age-old affinity for the moneyed interests"), scores the prolonged steel strike ("A failure in executive leadership"), calls for prosperity for farmers ("The social institutions of many of our rural communities ... are withering under the deepening pall of agricultural depression...