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Among these "faculty associates" are Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government; Thomas C. Schelling, professor of Economics; George B. Kistkiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government; and Albert O. Hirschman, professor of Political Economy...
Marriage represents Director George Abbott's 107th show on Broadway, and before the season is out, Abbott, 79, will bring in No. 108, a bedroom comedy called Agatha Sue, I Love You. Shelley Winters will play in Under the Weather, a trilogy by Novelist Saul Bellow; Shelley will be disturbed in all three. Neil Simon (Odd Couple) will be on deck for the third straight season with The Star Spangled Girl, who is an ex-Olympic swimmer, while Comic Woody Allen has turned playwright with Don't Drink the Water, a comedy that laughs at the cold...
Though they are not yet available for prescription, and are not likely to be for a long time, "Abbott's memory pills" are the subject of growing enthusiasm among brain researchers. Until last week, the only evidence of the pills' ef fectiveness had been supplied by experi ments with rats; now there is encour aging preliminary evidence, reports Psy chiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, that the pills may help to mend the fraying mem ory of aging humans...
...Cameron gave the pills, trade-named Cylert by North Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, as tough a test as he could devise. For subjects he chose men aged 49 to 85 whose memories had been impaired by severe hardening of the brain's arteries or by the deterioration of aging generally known as senile psychosis. He divided his 24 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany into two equal groups and gave half of them Cylert for the first week while the other half got an identical-looking placebo (sugar pill). Neither doctors nor nurses knew which...
...Abbott Laboratories commented with commendable caution that "it is still a long road from these first results to the ultimate evaluation in humans of an experimental drug of this type." Equally cautious was the University of Michigan's Dr. John Burns, who has been testing healthy subjects, mostly students, to find out whether Cylert can improve the normal memory of the young. Since Cylert is a stimulant, it enhances alertness; Dr. Burns wants to see whether it also increases the power to acquire knowledge and, if so, whether such increased power persists...