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Judicial Recognition. Sturdy (5 ft. 7 in., 164 lbs.), soft-voiced Martin Luther King describes himself as "an ambivert-half introvert and half extrovert." He can draw within himself for long, single-minded concentration on his people's problems, and then exert the force of personality and conviction that makes him a public leader. No radical, he avoids the excesses of radicalism, e.g., he recognized economic reprisal as a weapon that could get out of hand, kept the Montgomery boycott focused on the immediate goal of bus integration, restrained his followers from declaring sanctions against any white merchant...
While universal thought and national figures exert an influence upon pop songs, some lyrics seem to stand apart from all literature and philosophy, and emerge as a self-contained and self-explanatory art form...
Although Adlai Stevenson's recent complaint of the effect of mass media on the American electorate during the past Presidential campaign has a tinge of sour grapes to it, it is worth studying. He fears that television and radio exert an unhealthy influence on American thinking, in that they tend to reduce the People to a mass, prone to the fallacies of a collective mind...
...stroke victims as in coronary artery disease, said Dr. Wright. A stroke may either precede or follow a heart attack: the two are often associated, and the same patient is likely to have atherosclerosis in both cerebral and coronary arteries. As in heart disease, female sex hormones seem to exert a protective effect (reflected in the relative immunity of premenopausal women), but they cannot be given to men without feminizing them. Needed: a synthetic hormone that affords protection without feminization. Several laboratories are trying to produce...
...needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot to local war without setting off a big global bang. "We can exert flexible force tailored to fit any situation," says Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown, 57, the weathered combat-carrier veteran who has commanded the Sixth Fleet since last August. "We can raise our voice without shouting. And without firing a shot we can create terrific repercussions...