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...shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...
Part of the plan has been dubbed "operation Frontal Lobes," and includes programs on the history of the U.S. Navy, the trial and death of Socrates, the communal experiment of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the physical nature of man, and special documentaries devoted to such subjects as the black market in the adoption of babies. Not all these projects may reach the TV screen, because, admits Taylor, "in this area there is a fairly high mortality among ideas...
...Chinese Communists were sweeping down through North Korea from the Yalu, Indo-China seemed all but lost. Ho Chi Minh's forces, newly equipped by Red China, drove the French into a pocket on the Red River delta around Hanoi and Haiphong, were shifting from guerrilla raids to frontal attack, and boasting that they would take
...half-inch, circular hole with blackened edges in his right temple, and a star-shaped hole higher up in the left temple. During the night he had shot himself with his .38-cal. revolver. But instead of taking his life, he had accidentally performed a crude kind of bilateral frontal lobotomy,* a tricky piece of neurosurgery sometimes used to relieve paranoid depression and other psychoses (TIME, May 28). At the hospital, surgeons could only clean up the wounds, remove some small bone fragments and wait to see what would happen...
...favors still another type of operation, developed by Yale's Dr. William B. Scoville. Called "selective cortical undercutting," it involves choosing one of the three main areas of the frontal lobes and making a local cut where the grey matter joins the major white fibers. Weighing results in 150 cases, Dr. Wilk considers them as good as those from complete lobotomies. And personality damage was vastly reduced, to the point where he thinks the selective operation might be used for serious neuroses...