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After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
...Monkeys. The most dramatic and perhaps most significant of the researchers' forays into new territory was reported at a final dinner meeting on "Frontiers of Psychiatric Research" by Tulane University's Psychiatrist Robert G. Heath. A daring researcher, Heath has long sought clues to mental illness by planting electrodes deep in the brains of monkeys and humans, studying their brain waves and also noting their behavior when a weak current is passed through the electrodes (TIME, April 13, 1953). Now Heath and his Tulane team have found a sub stance in the blood of schizophrenics which they...
Since monkeys cannot talk, and schizophrenia is described in psychological terms dependent on patients' reporting, Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...
...with delusions and hallucinations. (The fact that different reactions can be provoked by the same substance in itself raises an intriguing psychiatric question: What causes one subject to become catatonic, another to become paranoid?) Within two hours the effect wore off, and the men have been normal since. Dr. Heath emphasized that his report on only two human cases was preliminary. But it was significant, and his substance will be tested as soon as possible by other researchers...
...base, the cops rushed in from the wings. One attacker, twisting Cole's foot, was wrestled until he let go; another swung on one of the cops and got a night stick across the head. Then eight cops armlocked the five out of the hall while Ted Heath's 18-piece British orchestra valiantly played America (also the tune of God Save the Queen) as order was restored. In jail the five men were joined by a sixth, found in a parked car outside the hall guarding two rifles, a blackjack and brass knuckles...