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Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement for the day the attack failed, went into Mexican exile, returned to invade Oriente province with 81 men aboard the yacht Gramma on Dec. 2, 1956. Castro likes to sit about a campfire and talk military science, citing Rommel and Napoleon, and discussing romantic proposals for Cuba, e.g., a school-city for 20,000 children. In 1953 he called for nationalization of U.S.-owned public utilities...
...slashed through the areas that control speech and the movement of the right side of the body. It had also cut some of the white fibers leading from the retinas of both eyes to the visual center in the back of the brain, and other fibers leading from the frontal cortex (associated with intellectual and reasoning functions) to other parts of the brain. George Congrave, 21, a chemical engineering student from Edson, Alberta, seemed likely to spend the rest of his life more like a vegetable than...
There was little hope that Congrave would ever regain the use of the right side of his body. How severe and lasting the impairment of his vision would be could not yet be told, or the extent to which other fibers to the frontal and temporal areas of the cortex would take over the functions of those destroyed. The acid test of Congrave's recovery would be months hence, when a member of the chemical engineering faculty brings down his textbooks to see how much he has retained, how much more he can learn...
Strangely, two experiences-or "strips of time," as Dr. Penfield calls them-are never activated at the same time, so there is no confusion. Responses are obtained only from the lobes lying inside the temples, never from the frontal lobes (in the forehead) or the occipital (toward the back of the head). Even in some parts of the temporal lobes themselves, stimulation produces no effect. And never does stimulation lead to constructive thinking or purposeful action...
...controversy began with an attack by William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, in the October 12 edition of the Alumni Bulletin. Hocking claimed that the "frontal pattern of the new house suggests a calico print." He added that it is "devoid of taste, devoid of interest, devoid of imagination, and devoid of dignity," and concluded that "unfortunately it will last a long time...