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Eyewitness- North Viet Nam is a 43-minute documentary that offers Western moviegoers a rare glimpse of North Viet Nam. Directed and narrated by James Cameron, a left-wing British journalist who last year published a blandly tendentious report about his brief visit to Hanoi and environs, Eyewitness is a loose collection of such random unrevelatory footage as Cameron's cameramen were permitted to expose...
...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...
...Static. Whether or not Cylert proves useful as a memory rejuvenator, says Dr. Cameron, it may point the way to a fuller and perhaps revolutionary understanding of the basic nature of memory. In the current explosion of research and knowledge, it has become clear that memory is not just a biochemical system, and is more than a mere pattern of behavior...
...Cameron, the most striking recent finding is that the nerve cell is not, as had been thought, a fixed and static structure, but one that continually forms new connections and breaks up old ones while producing biochemical substances to regulate faraway organs. In the hope of stimulating this neuronal activity, he tried feeding ribonucleic acid (RNA) from yeast to memory-deficient patients in Montreal (TIME, May 18, 1962). After he moved to Albany, he cast around for a better drug and hit upon Cylert, a combination of pemoline (marketed in Europe as a stimulant since 1956) and magnesium hydroxide...
Regardless of what the drug's effects on memory may prove to be, says Dr. Cameron, it "opens the way to an almost limitless exploration of new methods of modifying this extraordinary system whereby we can bring forward continually the experiences of the past to modify present actions and future plans." Beyond that, he foresees the possibility of a wholly new system of medicine, based not on conventional drugs and surgery but on the RNA-mediated "memory" inside every one of the body's trillions of cells...