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ToughTalk. Lower-echelon officials took up the cry. A government declaration urged that the war be pressed "until total victory liberates our whole national territory." Toughest talk of all came from Khanh's air force commander, mustachioed Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, who packs a bone-handled six-shooter in a Texas-style holster. At a news conference, Ky embarrassed his U.S. advisers by openly confirming that for three years South Vietnamese sabotage teams have been slipping into the north on the ground and by air. "I myself dropped special-forces units into North Viet Nam," boasted Ky. Actually...
University of Pennsylvania Psychiatrists Dr. Albert Stunkard and Dr. Charles Koch made their experiments on test subjects who were grossly overweight. The women averaged 62% heavier than normal for their height and bone build, and one weighed almost three times what she should have. The men averaged 44% overweight, including one 600-pounder-a fourfold fatty. After a night without food and no breakfast, the volunteers swallowed a stomach tube with balloon attached. Every 15 minutes the doctors asked: "Are you hungry? Does your stomach feel empty? Do you want to eat?" Normal subjects, tested for comparison, felt hungry whenever...
...bulk. Named for the Houston surgeon who devised it in 1939 for recuperating back-fracture patients, the Foster frame is a kind of reversible bed in which the patient is immobilized between a pair of sturdy canvas slings. Besides keeping the spine rigid-which is absolutely essential during the bone-healing period-the Foster frame helps prevent the patient from getting bedsores...
...late '30's, he said, education was considered primarily as the back-bone of American democracy. By the 1950's this concern with the social purpose of education had decreased, and emphasis had shifted to developing the ability to think. During this "decade of intellect," the gifted child received much attention, and was the beneficiary of such innovations as the Advanced Placement Program...
...crime for which he was finally convicted occurred about 3 a.m. last March 13 when Moseley, armed with a bone-handled German hunting knife, was cruising in his Corvair through the quiet streets of Queens. In calm, almost dispassionate testimony, he told the shocked courtroom: "I just set out to find any girl that was unattended and I was going to kill her." The girl he spotted was Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, driving her red Fiat home from work. Moseley followed until she parked in a lot just 35 yds. from her apartment home...