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...performed in Peru 12,000 years ago, probably to let out suspected demons; 14th century anatomy texts contain instructions for similar operations. Except for a brief period during the 1940s and 1950s, psychosurgery has never won wide acceptance in the U.S., and for good reason. Lobotomies, operations to lessen severe abnormal anxiety by severing nerve connections in the brain, resulted in improvement only half the time, and turned many patients into human vegetables...
...lost it for Pakistan. Despite the current popularity of the Soviet Union and the unpopularity of the U.S., Indians are probably as horrified by Russian totalitarianism and Chinese Maoism as by what they consider "American materialism." In the long run, India's new-found strength could conceivably lessen rather than enlarge Soviet influence...
...liability of Chappaquiddick might lessen Kennedy's advantage in his home region, but it would not eliminate it, and he could carry the area quite comfortably. All of New England is suffering from a lagging economy, giving any Democrat a chance to win in the less conservative states. Kennedy could easily carry Rhode Island and his home state of Massachusetts, where he won re-election after Chappaquiddick, although by a reduced margin. Even Republican pros give Teddy an edge in Connecticut. In Maine, the issue would not be Chappaquiddick or the economy; it would be home-state resentment of Kennedy...
Vertical Hold. The ITT action leaves unresolved one of the most crucial ambiguities in antitrust law: Does the Clayton Act, a keystone of the nation's antitrust policy for more than five decades, apply to conglomerates? The act clearly bans major acquisitions that "substantially lessen competition." It has been applied to horizontal mergers of directly competing firms and to vertical mergers of companies that have customer-supplier relationships. But it does not specifically forbid the kind of mergers that form conglomerates: those involving firms offering apparently unrelated goods or services. The Justice Department's three suits against...
...pains, Djilas spent nine years in Tito's prisons. Now he is worried that a 23-man presidency might go too far toward de-centralization and do more harm than good. "A 'collective presidency' instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency of the administration and the bickering of the already dissociated chiefs." Still, from his booklined study on a shaded Belgrade street, he pronounces himself pleased with the divorce of the Communist Party from everyday government affairs and the liberation of the economy from bureaucratic party controls...