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Neurochemist Georges Ungar based his work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar...
...Connections. After many such tests, Ungar concluded that the fear had indeed been transferred and that the degree of transfer depended on the amount of extract injected. It was also affected by the training of the donor rats-longer training produced better transfer-and the interval between training and removal of the donor-rat brain; brain removal too soon after training apparently prevented the transfer material from fully developing...
MOVIN' WITH NANCY (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Nancy Sinatra, the "Rat Pack"-Frank Sinatra and Frank Jr., Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.-and others join hands in a musical tour of California...
...final appearance of the Louis XVI room suggests that Bowman was, in fact, being observed as if he were a rat in a maze, perhaps to test his readiness for a further progression, this time a transcendence. The decor of the room is probably not significant, and is either an arbitrary choice made by the observers, or else a projection of Bowman's own personality (the floor and the food are specifically within Bowman's immediate frame of reference...
Unstinted Adulation. Bobby's key phrases-"We can do better"; "This is a time to begin again"-are borrowed almost verbatim from Jack's vintage-'60 speeches. He makes the same effective use of statistics, from rates of birth to frequency of rat bites; he, too, sprinkles his talks with erudite quotations, from Archimedes and Camus, Goethe and Shaw. And like Jack's, his political persona is considerably more adventurous than his explicit statements and positions...