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Inevitably, as transit service declines and roads improve, more autos not only crowd the routes to town but choke the city streets as well. Chairman George L. DeMent of the Chicago Transit Authority understandably bemoans "the 5 o'clock shadow of smog, noise, tension and wasted time." Freeway tie-ups have multiplied to the point where airborne traffic spotters in at least 25 cities now broadcast advice about how to dodge them. Frequently, a new freeway built to carry 100,000 cars a day no sooner opens than it is inundated by twice that many. Besides, one mile...
Leroy Uyehara at 135, Lee Alexander at 145, Frank Antonson at 155, Walter Rice at 165, Tag Dement at 175, and Jim Cassidy at 135 were the other winners in the freshman competition...
...their most dramatic progress. The stuff that has been written about dreams would fill a library, and most of it makes as much sense as "such stuff as dreams are made on." Dr. Kleitman's Chicago team determined to collect accurate data. Such brilliant students as Dr. William Dement (now at Stanford University) and Dr. Edward Wolpert (now at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital) stuck a tiny electrode on each side of a volunteer's eye and carried the leads to a brain-wave machine (electroencephalograph) in the next room...
...Dement devised an ingenious experiment to find out what happens if a person is allowed to sleep his normal number of hours, but is not allowed to dream. His volunteers were awakened whenever their REMs indicated the beginning of a dream. Then they were allowed to fall asleep again. And so on, night after night. By the third night, most volunteers began to get edgy and act strange. In the final part of the experiment, when they were allowed to sleep as long as they wanted, they dreamed twice as much as usual...
...Dement concluded that dreaming may be even more than the guardian of sleep: it may be the guardian of sanity itself, as sleep is the guardian of general health...