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Grey Matter Psychosurgery is older than the pyramids, though ancient man didn't call it psychosurgery. When he picked up flint and mallet and cut a hole in his brother's skull, he was often just looking for a way to let the evil spirits out. Modern medical science not only has better tools and a sounder vocabulary, but believes it knows where to look for the trouble, i.e., in the front part of the brain...
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...quit the railroad when its president gave him a needless bawling out over a hotbox. He hired on with the American Locomotive Co., and in less than two years, at 36, he became works manager of its Allegheny plant. Then one day in 1911 a man named Nash from Flint, Mich, offered him the job of running the Buick plant. It meant less money, but Chrysler had never got automobiles out of his mind; he accepted. He scrapped Buick's leisurely, carriage-maker methods, soon jacked production from 45 to 200 cars a day. The money took care...
...three judges of the ninth federal circuit court of appeals found themselves in emphatic agreement. ". . . However hard and disagreeable may be the test in times of popular passion and excitement," they wrote, "it is the duty of the courts to set their faces like flint against . . . erosive subversion of the judicial process...
Setting their faces like flint, the judges forthwith ordered Longshoremen Leader Harry Bridges freed from the San Francisco jail where he had been held since Aug. 5 as a threat to U.S. security. The "erosive subversion," the court held, had been caused by the Government when it persuaded District Judge George B. Harris to revoke Bridges' bail and clap him in jail during his appeal of a five-year prison sentence for perjury. The Government had argued that Bridges, as a Communist, imperiled the U.S. war effort in Korea...