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...hazards within the pattern of brain surgery, Dr. Freeman has undergone a great change of heart. He has fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
Whores or Godmothers. Up and down Germany, he travels in his station wagon, and in each town the pattern is the same. With from one to three assistants, he begins by pasting up posters, tacking streamers to buildings, furnishing the local movie house with slides advertising his talks. Then he interviews city officials for a briefing on local problems, and prepares a set of three public speeches-one on religion, one on social and political affairs, a third on sex and morals...
...misfortune to announce a 2?-an-hour cost-of-living cut for his 75,000 employees just after the autoworkers got their raise. The Farm Equipment-United Electrical union warned that when it starts discussing contract changes with Harvester next fortnight, "we will definitely be talking about the automotive pattern." Answered McCaffrey, whose company has been hit by slipping farm income and a drop in implement sales: "We don't believe that just because some large company in another and much more profitable industry agrees to something, we are obligated to agree to it also...
...many cases of failure to conceive, said Rio de Janeiro's Dr. Arthur Campos da Paz, the trouble is that cervical secretions are hostile to spermatozoa. This can be established by a simple smear test. If the secretion is normally receptive, it dries in a marked, fernlike pattern; if it is hostile, the pattern is different or absent. And in such cases, doses of a female hormone may fix things...
General Motors, which set a new pattern for labor and management five years ago by tying wages to the cost of living, last week modernized the pattern. It agreed to a request by the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers that the bulk of the cost-of-living increases be incorporated in base pay rates. Thus, of the 24? in cost-of-living increases granted since 1950, 19? will become a permanent pay increase...