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...doctor wins, Dr. Regan and the County Medical Association are concentrating on trying to prevent them. For example, a doctor must not tell a patient that a broken limb will be "as good as new," for that can be regarded as a verbal contract. He must not promise a cure...
South America's main ills, the conference concluded, were economic rather than political; the indicated treatment was increased productivity all along the line. To achieve this cure, the diplomats agreed, there must be more U.S. dollar investment, especially by private capital, in fields other than petroleum and mining...
...Communist enemy," wrote Schmidt, "has fomented intrigues which have insinuated themselves into Brazilian opinion ... It is our duty, not only to unmask the lies, intrigues and false interpretations, but to cure the ills which really exist . . . Unless the country is enriched, there will be no social justice, no order, no true democracy, no cultural advancement-millions and millions of Brazilians will continue to vegetate, lost in poverty...
...sort of instruction really work? Some educators have taken it seriously enough to give it a try. The Institute of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected to the cerebrograph...
...theory is that when a person sleeps, his subconscious is still open to suggestion and can therefore learn. To prove it, sleep-learning promoters, including Inventor Sherover, have been out collecting endorsements. Alexander (Victory Through Air Power) de Seversky declares that a sleep machine helped cure his Russian accent. Rudy Vallee is using one to learn lines and lyrics. One housewife solemnly reported that, by placing a machine under her husband's pillow, she had taught him to like salad...