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...University Hospitals in Madison, Wis., Psychiatrist Sherwyn M. Woods took a series of encephalograms and found them normal except for one thing: the brain-wave pattern showed high peaks, at rates of 6 and 14 per second. Existence of this "6 and 14 dysrhythmia" has been known for only a decade. While its significance is still disputed, Dr. Woods believes that it is often a sign of a personality disorder, virtually confined to children and adolescents, that he calls the "6 and 14 syndrome." Most victims seem to be average or exceptionally "good" children until they are picked...
Attempting to slow down the game by working carefully planned pattern plays, Tech managed to play as equals with Harvard for most of the first half. The Crimson gained a six-point lead six minutes after the tip-off on Gary B orchard's set shot from 15 feet out, but M.I.T. captain Dave Koch, maneuvering adeptly off the 1-3-1 offense plan, quickly erased the advantage...
There have also been price cuts in building materials recently, ranging all the way from floor tiles to roofing insulation. All these are signs of an encouraging new U.S. pattern: a rising level of economic activity without the usual rise in costs and prices...
...gave their customers "fair value" regardless of price fixing. Some manufacturers, despite their earlier pleas, may now insist that they were not part of any conspiracy. All of them can be counted on to fight hard in the first cases to come to trial, since these will set the pattern for awards in subsequent suits...
...suing utilities have demanded a jury trial. If each suit went to trial, the federal courts would be trying little else for years. But legal experts agree that, once the first suits set a pattern, cheaper and quicker out-of-court settlements are likely to become the rule. Nonetheless, many a youngster just starting law school may well earn his first few years' salary as a member of the bar working on the electrical-equipment suits...