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...Casey (ABC. 10-11 p.m.). The Tamburlaine of the frontal lobe has a neurosurgical go at the tiny brain of a professional entertainer...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An electrical current, alternating at a frequency of two million cycles per second and flowing through electrodes implanted in the frontal lobe of the brain, has been effectively used to relieve pain and suffering of patients with incurable cancer without causing major psychological damage...
...described by Dr. White, a tiny electrode is inserted into each frontal lobe of the brain with the patient under general anesthesia. Once in place the electrode tips lie in the "inferior medial" white matter of the lobe, with the thread-thin wires, insulated by lacquer and fine teflon tubing, projecting through the scalp. When the electrodes are attached to the high-frequency electrical current, Dr. White explained, lesions, formed by coagulation of tissue, are created in the area. The process takes from five to 10 seconds. Additional lesions are created at intervals of several days by withdrawing the electrodes...
...Attempts to relieve by frontal leucotomy (lobotomy) the nagging persistent pain and dread that cancer may inflict on its victims," Dr. White said, "date back 15 years. Except as a procedure of last resort, bilateral extensive lobotomies have never been popular. The ensuing deterioration in personality and mentation can be appalling, much more so than in the psychotic who has undergone a similar procedure...
...Chairman Alan S. Boyd-and illustrated the sorry state in which the lines find themselves. Result of the meetings: the U.S. air passenger can expect fewer frills, higher fares, and new penalties for not showing up for his flight; the carriers themselves will get cracking in a new frontal attack on some of their pressing ills...