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Father Flanagan originally set up Boys Town to provide a home only for mentally and physically sound boys. Under the directorship of Father Nicholas Wegner, now 73, the institution has refused to alter that policy, even though foster homes now accommodate more of the kind of boys that Flanagan meant to help. The town's population has fallen from around 900 in the early '50s to under 700 last year...
...Fraudulent." Last week, before TV cameras and an overflow crowd of more than 1,500 spectators, the state legislature's education committee opened hearings on 19 proposals to alter the Imbalance Act. The lead speaker, fittingly enough, was Mrs. Hicks, who once again praised "neighborhood schools," denounced "intellectual bureaucrats," and tried to stake her case on busing: "How much longer do we have to listen to the fraudulent statements of those who say the schools can be balanced with massive cross-busing?" In actual fact, some 85% of Boston high school students already use buses or public transportation...
Psychosurgery, or modification of the brain to alter or control some aspect of personality, is an ancient operation. Trephining (opening the skull) was performed in Peru 12,000 years ago, probably to let out suspected demons; 14th century anatomy texts contain instructions for similar operations. Except for a brief period during the 1940s and 1950s, psychosurgery has never won wide acceptance in the U.S., and for good reason. Lobotomies, operations to lessen severe abnormal anxiety by severing nerve connections in the brain, resulted in improvement only half the time, and turned many patients into human vegetables...
Danny comes from West Texas cattie-handling stock. He has never been any place he could not drive to, and he loves the road and his car. He is also hooked on trashy highway food: butter rum Life Savers, Peanut Planks, cheap cheeseburgers. A brief, miserable marriage does not alter his open approach to life, nor does he fall for the blandishments of publishers and movie pro ducers - although they give McMurtry a chance to kid literary parties and Hollywood editing methods...
...withdrawal of union leaders will not alter the fact that the government is going to be poking its nose into the regulation of wages and prices." William B. Gould, visiting professor of Law, said yesterday...