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Guesswork in GobbledygooL The psychologists are worse, torn as they are between gestaltists, behaviorists, functionalists, reflexologists and other -ists. They expend their energies formalizing the obvious ("Although other sensations have various degrees of hedonic tone," says one textbook, "pain is notoriously unpleasant"). But the result of all their efforts, Standen insists, is that they cannot say anything really important about man. "It is possible to go clear through a course in psychology without ever hearing what the various virtues...
...There will always be a sizable number of married men here, and long-range housing plans should take them into consideration, as well as providing single graduate students with dormitory rooms at reasonable prices. The University officials say they do not want to go into the housing business, nor expend already short funds. But it would be poor policy to discriminate against students in future housing plans merely because they are married...
...Western Cartridge division of the Winchester Repeating Arms company should like "White Heat;" the movie utilizes a good number of its products. During the running of James Cagney's re-entry into the bad-man field, the various principals expend nine 30-30 rifle bullets, three dozen 32 caliber special expanding nose pistol cartridges, one blasting charge, and nine size D tear gas shells...
...Positive Benefit. "Do not expend much powder and shot on Mr. Butler," Charles Darwin advised one of his supporters, "for he is really not worthy of it. His work is merely ephemeral." But Butler, who hated Darwin's evolutionary theory of "natural selection" as much as he hated the Established Church, expressed his own views early in his career by denouncing, in four large volumes, the idea that man "survived or perished according to a process of 'natural selection' into which neither God's will nor man's nor any being's appeared...
...Federal Government in a Federal Court. The facts are based on a case now under consideration by the Federal Courts of Connecticut, and is a result of a recent Supreme Court decision that it did not have to answer the constitutional question of whether a union could expend funds in a political campaign...