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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Programming Patterns. These tentative experiments lend support to the theories of Physicist Edmond Dewan, who was one of the first scientists to suggest that REM sleep serves to bring into play fundamental computer-like "programming" patterns of the mind. "In higher organisms," Dewan says, "the brain is continually reorganized to meet the organism's current needs." To San Francisco's Breger, the crucial integration of REM is possible because the outside world is cut off and "social constraints" are minimal. In short, says Breger, "if something comes up in your present life that makes you anxious, during your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mind: Learning Through Dreaming | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

Although University police would release no information about the incident, a witness, John P. Bachner '66, reported that the salesman identified himself to police as David DeWan. DeWan an M.I.T. graduate student, is the president and sole owner of "Contact," an enterprise which has reportedly collected 2000 completed questionnaires from Boston college students this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Police Eject Man From Winthrop House | 9/30/1965 | See Source »

Interviewed last night before his reported appearance in Winthrop House, DeWan said his organization charged $4 for supplying five to ten names of "ideal" dates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Police Eject Man From Winthrop House | 9/30/1965 | See Source »

...DeWan called the Operation Match questionnaire "less sophisticated, appealing to the big, Mid-west universities." He said that under Contact's "two-way matches" which he described as an improvement over Operation Match, a student would be the "ideal" date of the person whose name he received and that that person would also be the student's ideal date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Police Eject Man From Winthrop House | 9/30/1965 | See Source »

...palace (actually a large bungalow) demanding an elected national council and tax reforms. Tashi submitted to the experi ment in democracy for 29 days and then, feeling unable to cope with what was called "threatened disorder," asked India's Nehru for help. Nehru sent in troops and a dewan, or political officer. Ever since, India has handled Sikkim's foreign affairs and defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sikkim: From Debutante to the Deities | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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