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...similarly discolored. But a pair of Cincinnati ophthalmologists were puzzled when a patient appeared with a yellow glow all over his face and body, extending even to his palms and soles. The whites of his eyes, however, were unaffected, thus ruling out liver disease. It turned out, report Drs. Ira A. Abrahamson Sr. and Jr. in the A.M.A.'s Archives of Ophthalmology, that the man knew he had cataracts. Like night fighter pilots who believe that carrots speed up their adaptation to the dark, he thought he could improve his sight by taking carrot juice. Every...
Facts & Fables. The S.P.C. was founded in 1958 by a pair of Veterans Administration psychologists, Drs. Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow, after they discovered that the Los Angeles county coroner's office had been filing suicide notes for years and had amassed more than 700 of them. By mining and refining this lode of research...
...high-risk driver's obvious faults are ill-concealed hostility lurking just below the surface, and an egocentric disregard for others' rights and feelings. Underlying these characteristics, say Drs. Miller and Conger, is dissatisfaction with his position in life and a lack of direction: he does not know where he is going, let alone how to get there. The high-risk driver is far more likely than others to act impulsively, and live in a world of fantasy...
...Applied Psychology Research Unit in Cambridge, Drs. Robert T. Wilkinson and Donald Broadbent got Royal Navy volunteers to go 60 hours without sleep. The test subjects worked for 4½-hour stretches, then got 1½ hours off for a meal and rest-but no sleep. After two wide-awake nights, the sailors still did well at intellectually stimulating or competitive tasks such as playing chess, darts or pingpong. But they tended to nod at routine and tedious jobs, no matter how simple-like checking a manuscript for typists' errors...
Vets & Psyches. There will, in fact, be some new things on television this fall. In a series called The Eleventh Hour (NBC), Wendell Corey will become TV's first weekly psychiatrist, having analyzed already the remarkable 1961-62 success of Drs. Casey and Kildare (both returning, of course). There will be a program called The Nurses on CBS and, perhaps to satisfy a large segment of the mass audience, a new show about a veterinarian (NBC). Its cast includes all sorts of known animals and two unknown actors named Josh Peine and John Hubbard...