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...inch in diameter) deep into their brains, and carried connecting wires out to a tiny socket of the type used in midget radios. The sockets are attached at the back of the animal's head. The monkeys recover quickly from the operation, appear to feel no discomfort, and go about their monkey business as usual. Then, by plugging into the sockets and making connections with electrical instruments, Dr. Delgado can either record the animals' normal brain waves or modify them by running a tiny current through their brains and watching how this affects their behavior...
...which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors, blowers and compressors, and therefore noiseless, may lead a mighty procession." ¶In industry, "wherever danger, remoteness or discomfort preclude the presence of a human observer, the industrial television camera can take his place." ¶In education, "schools . . . may employ their TV sets to bring talks and demonstrations to the entire school or to selected classes, without the loss of time attendant upon a call to assembly...
...women in his office complaining of indigestion before he noticed something odd. Nearly all the symptoms (acidity, distension, belching, nausea, vomiting) might be alike, but there was one consistent difference: the men had pain from the beginning of their illness, the women had all sorts of discomfort without actual pain, and nearly all were married...
...were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort by a friend's remark that Queen Mary was upset because "so few were left to uphold traditions...
Krumm, then, realizing that he may have indicated he was a Stevenson man, added hastily "in a way." Replied Ike, laughing at Krumm's discomfort: "I hate to go, too-in a way." Then he and Mamie went home to join the rest of the family around the Christmas tree. Obviously preoccupied, Ike paced about uneasily for a while before he settled down to playing with Grandson Dwight David's new electric train (see NEWS IN PICTURES...