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...Samuel Bogoch of Boston's Foundation for Research on the Nervous System taught pigeons to peck a particular button to get a kernel of corn from a machine. He found that the chemical brain reaction was not only the creation of new brain protein, but protein-sugar combinations (mucoids) as well. Until three years ago, said Dr. Bogoch, only 20% of the brain's proteins had been identified. This has now been raised to 60%, and those known are divided into 16 groups. Two of these groups show a marked, though brief, increase when a pigeon learns...
...kind of classic comedy chase that has been absent from films for too long. And they are ably backed by a surprisingly supple comedian named Van Johnson, who seems to be searching for-and finding -a new turn to his long career. Together, the old pros take the surplus corn and, like the manufacturers of all that breakfast food they buy, turn it into something with snap, crackle and popularity...
...convince students that it is, indeed, socially and morally conscious. "Thus it is that General Electric Company stresses its role in the fight against air pollution (it builds filtering systems), that Westinghouse Electric Company tells students and others about its work in running a Job Corps Center, and that Corn Products Company asks for '100 college graduates who realize that hunger is the most urgent problem in the world today,' an article explains. This is necessary, but hardly sufficient. Liberal-minded undergraduates are certainly concerned with the "social conscience" and the need to contribute to society, but when it comes...
...scare up an audience-in the classrooms that were used for warm-up rooms, in the parking lots, in the shadow of the tent. Everywhere the air was filled with the dum-ditty-dum-dum rhythms, sprightly scraping and mournful droning of such classic Appalachian ditties as Jimmy Crack Corn, Tom Dooley and John Henry...
...Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging to this study, this instrumental group ranks high in the auteur ratings for their inspired and practically identical rockifications of Red River Valley, Jimmy Crack Corn, and Reveille...