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...knee-length boots. They generally favored long, dangling spike earrings which looked like nails hanging from their ears. But the fever began to infect others, who carry green bookbags, look earnest, and wear sensible shoes. These girls like small earrings which fit like cufflinks in the center of the lobe. As yet the illness has not struck girls who wear cashmere sweaters and stockings to class and only date members of the Porcellian Club, but their immunity will probably not last long...
Duplicating Nature. From the pitui-tary's front lobe. Biochemist Li has isolated no fewer than five other hormones, including the enormously potent adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). Three other hormones he discovered are involved in the female reproductive cycle; finally there is the human growth hormone (HGH, or somatotropin), which may yet prove to be the most important...
...before its official opening, its 50 beds were filled with patients suffering from skull fractures, Parkinson's disease, tumors of the brain and spinal cord, and assorted other examples of the 200 human ills loosely classed as neurological. It had already undertaken its first operation, for a temporal-lobe defect causing epilepsy. The 13-member team in the operating room included an electronics engineer, a neurophysiologist, a neuroanesthesiologist, an electroencephalographer, and a behavioral psychologist...
Modern hotels claim luxury with a color telephone in the bathroom and an electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...
...Casey (ABC. 10-11 p.m.). The Tamburlaine of the frontal lobe has a neurosurgical go at the tiny brain of a professional entertainer...