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...Leighton is now Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical College. He is regarded as a leader in attempts to treat mental illness at the community level...
...John C. Snyder, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, announced that the new department, to be headed by Dr. Alexander H. Leighton, will be staffed by experts in medicine, sociology, anthropology, and psychology...
...nether world of American funeral customs that it occasionally scores a dead ringer. That chrome-plated butterball, Liberace, is hilariously on key as a casket salesman, peddling such optional extras as the standard-eternal or perpetual-eternal flames ("The standard burns only during visiting hours"). Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton enliven one interlude as a married pair squabbling over the remains of their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven for senior citizens...
...Robert Leighton, took aerial photos of a volcanic area in the Mojave Desert and degraded them to Mariner's 200-line resolution. They practiced on weather pictures taken by Tiros satellites and on rocket photos of the Earth. They pored over purposely fuzzed-up pictures of relief maps of Southern California. By matching their conclusions with the known features of the areas they studied, they learned how to judge distances and sizes, how to distinguish contours from shadows and reflections...
Mars may not look much like Earth; the pictures are, in fact, testimony to the uniqueness of Earth in the solar system. But Mars could still hold some of the secrets of Earth's evolution. "If the Martian surface is truly in its primitive form," said Dr. Leighton, "that surface may prove to be the best-perhaps the only-place in the solar system still preserving clues to original organic development, traces of which have long since disappeared from Earth...