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...lawbreakers emotionally ill? If so, should jails and penitentiaries be turned into mental hospitals? These were the principal questions occupying 3,000 psychiatrists in Atlantic City last week at the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association. To no one's surprise, no consensus was reached. Extremists at both ends of the opinion spectrum remained unconvinced by heated arguments; in between were varying groups of gradualists and the unconvinced...
...kidney disease. The University of Washington's Dr. Paul P. Van Arsdel Jr. called attention to the appearance of antibodies against their own heart-muscle tissue in victims of heart attacks. When the antibodies appear, they have no effect on the healing of the heart muscle. The consensus: anti bodies will probably appear after protracted damage to any tissues...
...Darling. At last week's Chicago meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard's George Gaylord Simpson, vertebrate paleontologist, seized upon the centenary of Darwin's publication of the Origin of Spe cies to summarize today's consensus of scientific thinking on the nature and origin of man. The ancestry of man is still not fully known, he conceded, but he denounced "pussyfooting" about apes in man's family tree...
...well as the father of both his wife and of his sweetheart Sarah. They urged him to reconsider his hasty action against Queen Damali. Prince Juko, far from being cast into a cell for a crime in the shrubbery, was gaily taking part in all the birthday celebrations. The consensus in Buganda was that Queen Damali had been framed and that, in order to marry Sarah, the King would have to try something else. One possibility: he might leave the Anglican Church and become a Moslem...
...consensus emerged from stirrings of opinion, no pat judgment that the U.S. is "soft." The U.S. knew that, save in wartime or other great crises (the Depression), national purpose cannot always be precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a sense national purpose on the move. So, in effect, was Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give...