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WHEN Robert Downey was working as the "house freak" in a Madison Avenue ad agency a few years ago, an expert was paid $28,000 to come and tell the agency how to sell a particular beer. When the big day arrived, this motivational research guy came before the board and said just three words: "Beer is cock." He then collected his stash and went home-and the agency, after pondering these words of wisdom, came up with a campaign about the beer "with the five-minute head...
...Political Scientist Barber's long-distance analysis of President Nixon's personality and predictions of his behavior [Sept. 12] began to wobble my confidence in your Behavior section until it was later mentioned that he claims no professional credentials as a behavior expert. That much had to be obvious, of course...
...consumer does not. Yet he is supposed to have one: the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC was created in 1914, partly to enforce antitrust laws and partly to stop misleading advertising, false labeling and deceptive sales practices-precisely the abuses that are most infuriating consumers now. By all expert accounts, the FTC has failed in its task. Last week a special commission of 16 lawyers, professors and economists appointed by the American Bar Association explained the reasons for that failure. The agency, charged the commission, is a model of bureaucratic inertia, timidity and internal dissension, and it cries...
Whether a whole chromosome or a single gene or a group of genes is responsible, genetic defects can affect every part of the human body and the mind. Dr. Victor McKusick of Johns Hopkins, the world's leading expert on dwarfism, supplied a forbidding list: abnormalities of the skeleton, of the innumerable enzyme systems, of the nervous system, of blood cells, both red and white, of clotting mechanisms, of the hormone systems, of the kidneys, of the intestinal tract, and of the muscles. The eyes and ears are also susceptible-there are about 40 varieties of hereditary deafness, said...
Psychological Difference. "Concentration" is fast becoming a sports column cliche, but it is the best word the tennis world has found to sum up the psychological difference between one finely trained, fundamentally expert player and another. Says Pancho Gonzales: "Rod is the most disciplined of them all. What I admire most about him is his determination and concentration. He just wears you down...