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Refs may not court recognition or notoriety but while working the nationally prominent games or "suicide games" as Diehl calls them, he and Hannon are about as innocuous as a tandem of sprightly young tarantulas. The two may be roving foci for the stewing frustrations of players whose shots aren't dropping, coaches who have an axe to grind, and a steady verbal effluvium from the stands, but at all costs they try to avoid controversy while on the floor. In short, "if you're constantly in controversy, you're not going to last too long," says Diehl...
...next year. In July 1976 the Ford Foundation will cease to provide about 80 per cent of the center's annual operating budget--as Ford has since the '50s--and the center, consequently, is going public this year, with industries doing Soviet business and other foundations as the main foci of a $1 million fund-raising effort...
EPILEPSY, which affects one person out of every 100 is caused by clusters of brain cells, or foci, that discharge electrical impulses paroxysmally. It produces violent seizures resulting in convulsions and unconsciousness, brief staring spells or episodes of uncontrollable rage. Researchers have discovered that most epileptic conditions can be controlled by a drug called Dilantin, which Dr. Frank Morrell, 47, of Chicago's Rush Medical College, believes prevents epileptic discharges from spreading to neighboring neurons...
Brecht is best produced with the simplest of scenery, as the current production illustrates amply. The stage takes on two foci: the massed chorus and the red box which the leaders use as a multi-purpose prop for their scenarios. Three objects make up a sort of backdrop. A sign-board carrying the number and title of the current scene expresses the movement of the play and places each scene in the whole. A map of Mukden and environs locates the action in space. A poster of Lenin indicates the dominating ideology, and shows that the whole dramatic inquest...
...system (which has diffuse interconnections throughout the brain), theorizing that it was somehow connected with mood and behavior. Others found that psychomotor epilepsy-a condition that can result from injury and makes some of its victims violently and uncontrollably aggressive-is often accompanied by the presence of tiny epileptic foci, or small scars, in the temporal lobe. Some doctors concentrated on the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped body whose removal appears to curb aggressive behavior...