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...stimuli. Direct electrical stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure (an automatic adjustment of the body trying to force more blood intp the cortex...
...might have filled the moral breach at the time of the Rhineland, or Auschluss, or Munich. Enlarge that picture to the entire cordon of east-European states and project it fifteen or twenty years into the future. If tuberculosis and the vitality consuming hunt for food are allowed to divert the best minds of east-Europe and China away from their training, these countries must be prepared to surrender their greatest hopes for future stability to foreign leadership and dynamism, or, as the English and French did, to chance...
...Balkan Investigating Commission were instructed to check on charges and countercharges of frontier violations, provocations, guerrilla fighting and general hell-raising along Greece's frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were...
...sooner we realize that our elementary education system is responsible for the average American's political naivete and gullibility, the sooner the necessary steps can be taken to correct the conditions and institutions involved. It would be far wiser to divert the funds involved from Army Information and Education to the subsidization of school systems. Willard Hertz...
Ways and means can be found to divert bulky school endowments from new gyms and libraries to better paying university chairs and finer research facilities, but eventually, all these problems resolve into the one broad question of whether the Federal Government should, as President Conant recently urged, subsidize the American educational system. If modern thinking holds that education is not a luxury for those able to afford it, but rather a social necessity for all capable of profiting by it, then the Federal Government, the one instrument equipped to reach all the people, must be partially responsible for assistance. Federal...