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...commend you on your fine Essay on student protest [May 3]. In an age of uncertainty and doubt it is all too easy for students to latch on to a certain philosophy and use it as their panacea. Too often this philosophy becomes dogma, blinds its proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually...
Only Suggestive. When the cholestyramine resin particles latch onto bile acids in the intestine and cause them to be excreted, the body's automatic governor reacts to this loss by telling the liver to make more bile acids. To do so, the liver uses cholesterol already in the body as its main source of raw material, thus reducing the stored cholesterol. By parallel mechanisms, cholestyramine also appears to reduce the absorption of fats into the blood and their deposition at various sites in the body, including artery walls...
...have lost contact with his boys, just as students in his course say that he has lost contact with them. That is, "the nut from Topeka" is more the creation of his willful imagination than a reality. To achieve color and unity in his perceptions, Finley tends to latch on to a misconception or simple trait and then create an entire character around it. "Finley does not talk with you," runs the frequent complaint, "he talks at you." Says one senior. "I hope I never lose the capacity to listen...
CHRYSLER: A possible missing brake component and door-latch problems on an unspecified number of '67 Plymouth Valiants and Dodge Darts; possible brake defects on '66 Plymouth Belvederes; carburetor difficulties in model-440 engines of various lines; imperfect wheels on '67 Dodge trucks...
...Government have picked up techniques like Cramer's. The Air Force, for instance, will employ his findings to delay speech in one ear for pilots and control tower operators who must communicate through noise interference. Cramer has discovered that a listener tends, as he hears another person speak to latch on to certain tonal qualities in the speaker's voice. As he listens, he will be able to hear and comprehend what the person is saying even through noise interference. With this in mind, instead of speeding speech to save time, Cramer has developed a process to "delay...