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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...
Different Intervals. Meanwhile in a nonshocking version of his dark-box-light-box apparatus, Ungar tested the preference of untrained mice for darkness. Given their choice between a light or dark box, the test animals spent an average of 138 seconds of a 180-second test period in the dark...
...Ungar lost by a very narrow margin, but he still amassed an impressive number of votes. His loss was not a real defeat since in this context the incumbent had an overwhelming advantage. He was a resident of long standing and very well-known in the community. Also, it is primarily people beholden to the incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully...
Last June Al Ungar, a former regular Republican, who had become disillusioned with the arthritic organization, ran in the primaries for Republican district leader against the organization's man. While Lindsay never publicly supported his campaign he did send out experienced workers to help Ungar...
Lindsay's involvement in local Republican politics from district primaries to the gubernatorial election has been kept very hush-hush. In Queens, where Al Ungar played a big part in the Rockefeller campaign, he worked under a pseudonym. Ungar is an inveterate cigar smoker, so during the campaign, he was to be known as Mr. Ragic. The identity of Mr. Ragic became the great mystery of the Queens storefronts. Orders were issued over the phone - by Mr. Ragic. Ragic rented a car and driver to take him from one store-front to the next. The driver would park...