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Patrick Dacre Trevor-Roper,* a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected...
...constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...
...Hungarian revolt demonstrated communism's "fatal defect"--an inability to blot out man's yearning for freedom even under dictatorship. This will lead to "the undoing" of communism "in a decade or more," perhaps sooner...
Famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock repaid part of the debt he owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
...succeeded. By a complex series of separation processes ending with centrifugation at 40,000 r.p.m. for 75 minutes, he got a protein-free pineal extract. When he gave it in daily injections to schizophrenics, their symptoms became less severe and their body chemistry, usually marked by a defect in sugar metabolism, edged back toward normal. After injections were stopped, the biochemical improvement lasted about a week, and the mental improvement about ten days longer. On repeated courses of injections, the patients got better and better. Says Dr. Altschule: "We have not yet reached the plateau at which improvement has leveled...