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...studies abroad cover the whole gamut of diseases and the agents that transmit them to man. At Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean...
Famed normaliens include Henri Bergson, Louis Pasteur, Jules Romains and Jean-Paul Sartre. Before World War II, the school also bred Socialist politicians from Jaurès to Blum. Even now, De Gaulle's Premier is Normalien Georges Pompidou, a banker-professor who writes books on French writers from Racine to Malraux. Yet he is not typical: in the Fifth Republic, normaliens have lost political influence...
...State of the Union message did evoke a scattered volley of praise, but even that was not so much for what Kennedy said but for how he said it. ''From his first sentence," gushed Columnist Doris Fleeson, "the President showed the new maturity and confidence bred by two hard years. The sophomoric buoyancy of the early days has disappeared." The pro-Democratic Washington Post went even farther. "Unexceptionable, unanswerable and irrefutable," it said of Kennedy's call for tax reduction and reform...
Sneaky Scheme. When this is done, it may mean the end for at least one kind of cockroach, Periplaneta americana, the species bred by Dr. Yamamoto. The males cannot resist its attraction, so they can be lured easily into baited traps. But this simple scheme does not satisfy the anti-cockroach forces. The females will not be affected, they point out, and a few males attracted to them in the age-old way will work overtime to make them lay fertile eggs...
Died. Sir Bruce Ingram, 85, working editor since 1900 of Britain's Illustrated London News; of a heart attack; in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Given a trial as editor of the well-bred journal his grandfather began in 1842, Ingram established himself at the age of 23 with an unparalleled scoop of Queen Victoria's funeral; he stationed 24 artists along the route to Windsor Castle, matched their drawings into 24 double-truck spreads and hit the newsstands within three days. Said Ingram, when photography replaced the sketches, and sepia-tinted rotogravure became the News's trademark: "A pity...