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...common knowledge that alcohol, in moderation, has therapeutic effects-as a releaser of emotional tensions, for instance, and as a mild sedative. Drink also serves society through the simple but significant camaraderie of the cup. In a recent experiment, Dr. Ching-piao Chien, a senior psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, tested this function of alcohol on geriatric patients. Chien staged his study in the hospital sunroom, which had been converted for the experiment into a pub. His subjects were 40 male inmates (average age 73) suffering from depression or mental deterioration stemming from senility...
Suds and Punch. At random, Chien split his subjects into four groups of ten each. Three groups spent an hour each weekday afternoon for nine weeks in the makeshift tavern. The members of one group were given 12 ounces of beer each; those of the second, a glass of nonalcoholic fruit punch; the third, fruit punch containing a dose of thioridazine, a psychotropic (mind-affecting) drug for the treatment of senility. Members of the fourth group, which was established as a control, stayed in the ward and got their usual dose of thioridazine straight...
...Communists are not much noted for a sense of humor, but there must have been at least a glimmer of a smile when they elected a former U.S. Air Force colonel as an alternate member of the party's Central Committee. The colonel in question is Dr. Chien Hsueh-shen, a product of M.I.T. and Caltech. Chien, who was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made important contributions...
However, two fine shorts run the first forty-five minutes at the Brattle, and might alone be worth the price. Both are art-house standards, and worthily so. Luis Bunuel's first film, Un Chien Andalou (a 1928 collaboration with artist-entrepreneur Salvador Dali), will either fascinate or frustrate with its free-association stream of symbols. (If you get completely lost in these fifteen unusual minutes, just remember violence symbolizes sex, the dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most...
...regular forces. And their effectiveness cannot always be measured by a single night's work. Two days after the Prews had crashed the propaganda chief's funeral, nine frightened Viet Cong from the raided village, including the regional chief, turned themselves in to the government as Chien Hoi defectors...