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Stand Fast. In the Middle East, Churchill gave warning that Britain will stand fast until the Egyptian government signs an international agreement providing adequate defense for the Canal Zone. If the Egyptian army, "which is being aided and trained by Nazi instructors," tries any monkey tricks, Britain will defend itself. "Unfortunately," he growled, "it was necessary for Naguib to gain as much popularity as possible by the well-known process of taking it out on the British...
...banning machinery, which had barred four men from speaking at the University last year died hard in early December when the Student Legislature plan to liberalize the Lecture Committee was rejected. The Legislature blamed its failure, in part, on the interference of the campus Young Progressives "who threw a monkey wrench in the negotiations," by raising the speaker issue at a critical time...
...Monkey Business as Usual. From Yale Medical School to Chicago went a young Spanish physiologist to tell of what he has learned from monkeys. Dr. José M. Rodrigues Delgado has drilled holes in the skulls of anesthetized rhesus monkeys, jabbed fine electrodes (1/200 of an inch in diameter) deep into their brains, and carried connecting wires out to a tiny socket of the type used in midget radios. The sockets are attached at the back of the animal's head. The monkeys recover quickly from the operation, appear to feel no discomfort, and go about their monkey business...
With as many as 40 leads into the brain of a single monkey, Dr. Delgado has found that by passing a current through different parts of the cortex, he can stimulate a resting monkey to raise his paws, scratch himself, turn around, yawn, or start trying to catch imaginary insects. In some monkeys he stimulated the lateral hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas...
Applied to most parts of the brain, electric stimulation has no effect on the monkey's emotions, but the hippocampal region (midway between the ears) is an exception. An electric tickle there turned a ferocious rhesus into a macaque Milquetoast; he even let Dr. Delgado take the liberty of stroking his face. The moment the current was turned off, he tried to bite...