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...pills" are the subject of growing enthusiasm among brain researchers. Until last week, the only evidence of the pills' ef fectiveness had been supplied by experi ments with rats; now there is encour aging preliminary evidence, reports Psy chiatrist D. Ewen Cameron, that the pills may help to mend the fraying mem ory of aging humans...
...ruled J. P. Stevens guilty of "flagrant" violation of federal labor laws, accused the firm of wholesale illegal firings, intimidating employees, and threatening reprisals for union activity. The company is appealing the order, which requires it to rehire 71 employees and send letters to 40,000 others pledging to mend its ways...
...rare blend of soldier-scholar who commands five foreign languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
...believe that many of the divorces that now take place can be prevented. One of the most effective, though not yet widespread, ways of helping to prevent divorce is the conciliation court. Eighteen states have already set up more than three dozen such courts, many of which try to mend marriages with the aid of full-time staff psychologists and social workers. The courts have an overall record of intact marriages in 33% of the cases voluntarily brought before them. They try to get the couple to communicate with each other once more, to concentrate on what they have...
...Gaulle argued that he was neither of the right nor left: "I am for France." The Gaullists hoped France reciprocated but had their fears. Premier Georges Pompidou was sufficiently worried to call a press conference to announce that if France would only give De Gaulle another chance, he would mend his ways. "It goes without saying that General de Gaulle, after all that has been said, discussed, shown, will be brought around to rethink his action. It is possible that what he has learned during this great confrontation will lead to certain changes...