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Flood. The biggest flood in the memory of eastern Arizona's old settlers poured down the Gila (pronounced hee-la) River. Ignoring midnight flood warnings, 100 families of the farm village of Duncan (pop. 887) saw their adobe houses crumble in the swirling brown waters next afternoon...
...assist in the operation of the new program Harvard has appointed Alfred D. Simpson, Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education, as Visiting Lecturer in Education; John F. Sly, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, as Consultant in Public Administration; and Ernest E. Fuller, President of Gila Junior College, Arizona, and former Associate Professor of Education, Brigham Young University, Utah, as Lecturer in Education. All the appointments are for the current academic year. Dr. Sly and Dr. Simpson are both widely known for research, writing, or administrative work in the field of educational finance; Dr. Fuller...
Sensory perception in animals is a major preoccupation in the psychology laboratories of the University of Rochester. There young John Warkentin, by recording the eye movements of animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty...
...style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs and Gila monsters, virtually impossible. At the University of Rochester a promising, extravagantly polite young scientist named John Warkentin is investigating animal eyesight with a more efficient technique which requires no training, last week made public some of his findings...
...White rats, white mice and Gila monsters showed no response at all, presumably have extremely poor vision...