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...some recent examples of self-satire: Lyndon Johnson showing his scar, Premier Ky and his wife in their Captain and Mrs. Midnight flight suits, the Ecumenical Council debating whether the Jews really killed Christ. There is surprisingly little political satire of Lyndon Johnson. The reason, believes Playwright-Director George Abbott, is that "humor is exaggeration, and President Johnson is his own exaggeration." Kennedy, in short, had a silk hat that could be knocked off by a humorist's snowball; Johnson's Stetson looks funnier on him than knocked...
...Gray closed the gap on a nifty tap from a few inches out. Harvard offered the visitors another opportunity when Tony Kotnik and Tom Michiletti were stewing together in the penalty box. The Crimson simply couldn't handle a five-on-three barrage twice in one day, and Darrell Abbott tied the game with a screen shot...
...firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, in charge of the renovation, designed the original building...
...questions were whether learning, which is one manifestation of memory, can be speeded up with the aid of chemicals and whether memory can be improved. The most affirmative evidence came from Illinois' Abbott Laboratories, where Biochemists Alvin J. Glasky, 32, and Lionel Simon, 31, worked in their spare time on a theory of memory developed by Sweden's Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961). According to this theory, memory depends on a process in which molecules of ribonucleic acid (RNA), or possibly subordinate protein molecules, are coded to record a particular event and then become lodged...
Rats & Goldfish. The Abbott researchers reasoned that learning and memory might be improved by boosting the supply of RNA, and hit upon a seemingly harmless chemical, magnesium pemoline (tradenamed Cylert), which increases RNA synthesis twofold or threefold. Working with Dr. Nicholas P. Plotnikoff, the researchers put Cylert in rat feed, then placed the animals in a chamber where they had to learn to avoid an electric shock. Rats on Cylert learned after only two or three trials; rats with no Cylert took eight to ten trials. Moreover, the Cylert rats remembered their lesson as long as six months, while untreated...