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...Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
...stone throwing after a concert. Local vigilantes have suggested running a Harvard professor out of town. Page one of the same CRIMSON says that the Navy wants to know, among other things, what sort of social affairs its ROTC men attend. The jury and the judge in the Hiss case were threatened after the trial. And now leaders of the Communist Party are jailed for "teaching, advocating, and encouraging." This hasn't been a crime in the many other years the Communists have been doing it; nor is it a crime now in such countries as England, France, Sweden...
Chandler. Then Hiss asked Manhattan's U.S. district court for a change of scene as well...
Because the press reports of his first trial had been of "such unprecedented volume and in some respects of such extraordinary virulence," said Hiss, he thought there was no chance of getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted...
This week the court granted Hiss three weeks' delay, but reserved judgment on the change of scene...