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...child wears earphones and holds electrodes in his hands. At first the operator sends a strong sound signal through the phones and then gives the youngster a slight electric shock (only one stage stronger than a tickle). This makes the child's hands sweat so that they serve as better conductors of electricity, and the amount of current they conduct is recorded by an automatic inker...
After a few such sounds and shocks, the child is conditioned to associate the two. Next, he gets a sound signal but no electric shock. If his hands sweat again, it proves that he has heard the sound and is reacting to it just as he did when it was always followed by a shock. If the operator gives him such a weak sound signal that he cannot hear it, his hands do not sweat and the inker shows the limit of his hearing powers. Doctors at the infirmary have tried the sound and shock test on 500 children aged...
Mixed Mind. In the House of Commons, Winston Churchill also found it necessary to point out that in Korea the U.S. is providing nine-tenths of the blood, sweat & tears. ". . . There is a great volume of opinion in this country that we should complete a withdrawal from Korea," cried Bevanite M.P. Emrys Hughes, a bellicose pacifist, "because the war there [is] one of the most cruel and futile in history." Since the Americans had made a mess of the P.W. situation and the Syngman Rhee affair, some Britons implied, they probably have balled up the truce negotiations just as badly...
They've come to learn and not to sweat. It's not too late--they're studying...
Through the day, at a campaign headquarters in an open-air beer garden, pistol-packing radio announcers claimed victory for a jowly man in a sweat-soaked sport shirt who stomped up & down among the tables: Candidate José Antonio Remón, once commander and still boss of Panama's only armed force, the 3,300-man National Police. Actually, because Panamanians count votes at their leisure (after the last election they took three months), "Chichi" Remón would not know the exact tally for weeks. But behind Chichi were his cops, the government, control of most...