Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plot's Roots. The stern lines of disapproval that are the normal set of Pedro Aramburu's face deepened as he watched his country's political and economic slide. In 1950, as a colonel, Aramburu joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing...
Word came from the Antarctic that the 18 U.S. explorers hibernating at the South Pole have averaged a weight loss of 15 Ibs. per man. Biggest loser: Paul A. Siple (TIME, Dec. 31), scientific boss of the polar party, down to 217 Ibs. from his normal 250. All of the pole sitters are in good health and spirits despite such inconveniences as a recent temperature of 100.4° below zero-a record...
Another important type of research at the Clinic has been the study of the lives and problems of normal people. This research was conducted under Robert W. White '25, new chairman of the Social Relations department...
What to do about it? Dr. Heath startled his colleagues last year by reporting that he had consistently extracted from the blood serum of schizophrenics a substance, which he has dubbed taraxein, that causes symptoms similar to schizophrenia when injected into normal volunteers. To make sure that taraxein really exists in schizophrenics' blood and is not merely a byproduct of laboratory processing of the serum, Heath took half a pint of blood from patients, removed the cells, and directly injected the serum into volunteers. They promptly developed what looked like mild, temporary, schizophrenic symptoms. With similar blood from normal...
...gets it from the "septal region" (part of the midbrain. in front of the hypothalamus) of bovine brains. One test: Heath & Co. shot taraxein into two monkeys, noted behavior changes which reminded them of schizophrenia, then gave a shot of the beef-brain extract. The monkeys promptly returned to normal, apish antics...