Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry and Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman join Author Rachel Carson et al. to discuss the danger of pesticides...
...Europe. A civil engineer found himself something of a celebrity among his co-workers in New York City's Department of Parks All have only recently returned to a workaday world that they had nearly forgotten while serving as jurors in the trial of U.S. v. Samuel Garfield, et al. in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse. As jurors, they had seen 1,890 exhibits and heard 109 witnesses give 26,731 pages of testimony in the longest criminal trial ever held before a federal court jury. It lasted just 23 days less than a year...
...Et maintenant," shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...Abnormal Psychology states, for example: "...placebo treatment is necessary, because without it we could not be sure that any effects observed in the experimental group were due to the drug and not to psychological factors such as suggestibility, expectation, and so forth." To this the questionnaire study by Metzner et al. responds: "The present study does not employ a placebo control group since the focus of interest was not the comparison of psilocybin experiences with the effects of suggestion. Rather, the purpose of the research was to examine the effects of a set, setting and back-ground variables...
Whatever the vagaries of research methods, the paper by Litwin et al, makes it clear that its authors avow a commitment to "research on the short term and long term effects of psilocybin plus situation, and on the possible social uses of psilocybin.... Asking those people who are participating with us in making decisions and setting up programs to take the drug themselves is not evasive, but rather an attempt to bring as much knowledge and experience as possible to bear on these problems.... [However,] confrontation or, as it were, understanding the problem from the inside may be fruitful...