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...Gerard Piel will speak on "World Population: A Growing Problem" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Leverett House Old Library. Piel, who is publisher of Scientific American, was invited to speak as part of the Leverett House Art Festival...
Wednesday, January 15 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The major scientific breakthroughs since 1948 discussed by Astronomer Gart Wester-hout, Maser Inventor Charles H. Townes, Geologist Bruce Heezen, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Prizewinning Biochemist Severe Ochoa and Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel...
...PSYCHIC STRESS is probably no more severe now than in the days of the stagecoach and the highwayman, said the University of Michigan's Neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard. "It is not long ago that a man, leaving the small safety of his home in the morn ing, ran considerable risk of being robbed or assassinated by ruffians, or jailed or executed by his rulers, before he could return to it. And the home it self was a poor sanctuary from starva tion and disease, from pain and pri vation and death." Things are better now, even for the underprivileged...
...MENTAL STRESS is good for the mind, Dr. Gerard added: "Activity of the nervous system improves its capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger." Is It an Antidote? Some kinds of stress may even be antidotes for the harmful effects of other kinds, and the symposium considered an example in the flesh. Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye, who has made a career of studying stress, appeared on crutches and explained that he had broken his hip by falling out of a maple tree "while following the advice of Dr. White to get more exercise...
VISIONS OF GERARD, by Jack Kerouac. With this story of a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., Beat Author Jack Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace...