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...Professor Burrhus Frederick Skinner ever got tired of teaching and writing about psychology, he would have no trouble at all finding a job as an animal trainer. And there are those who believe that Skinner probably would be better suited to the circus than to the psychological laboratories. His critics, however, ignore the fact that Skinner's experiments with pigeons, rats and dogs are providing a concrete basis for the eventual understanding of human behavior...
Several times the game began to resemble a circus with the two teams racing up and down court to score 10 points in two minutes at one point. The Crimson's shooting average of 36 percent was good enough to have won several of the games it has lost this year, but Tufts also played much better than its season's record would indicate, and finally broke its 10-game losing streak...
...attacking one of the main causes of this sensationalism, Rayburn's ruling will minimize the circus element in committee session. But it raises a problem of its own. Immediately after Rayburn's announcement, Representatives Martin, Shafer, and a host of others--mostly staunch Republicans--began howling about censorship. They defended broadcasts and telecasts as highly democratic and educational. Although they have reasons for protesting other than democracy and education, their insincerity does not reduce the cogency of their arguments...
Ringing Doorbells. Francis McConnell grew up in an old-fashioned Methodist parsonage. His father, like most Methodist pastors of his day, baptized many of his converts by immersion (at their request), kept his preaching topics strictly Confined to the Gospels. The Scriptures were rigidly obeyed. When the circus came to town in Norwalk, Ohio, Francis had to see it without his parents. His father, although he loved the circus, "as a loyal Methodist, had to stand against the circus...
Five-Ring Circus. The training routine has both the exhausting overtones of a six-day bike race and the bewildering versatility of a five-ring circus. The day starts with 6 a.m. reveille. At 8, the candidates for the team put in more than an hour of riding, sharing six retired Army remount horses borrowed from Fort Belvoir. At ten, the group heads for the pistol range where Sharpshooter Troy puts them through their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into...