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THEIR DOUBTS increased when they found that a trained animal generally remembered its skills despite attempts to disrupt its cerebral electrical activity by intense cold, drugs, shock or other stress; only short-term memory???of recently learned skills?was impaired. There was an obvious conclusion: while short-term memory may be partly electrical, long-term memory must be carried in something less ephemeral than an electric current...
...drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory???with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...
...GARDEN OF MEMORY???the late Kate Douglas Wiggin?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life?childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens?girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity?travel?adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm...
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