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Lawrence Nye Stevens II '62 has been awarded a first prize of $500 in the Percival Wood Clement Prize Essay competition, which was open to undergraduate men and women at 21 New England colleges. The contestants wrote on "The Electoral College and the Constitution."
Preaching v. Practice. Old-fashioned psychoanalysis, says Neurologist Percival Bailey, the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute's director of research, is no science but a pseudoreligious faith. "Its mystical ceremony of initiation resembles in many ways that of the shamans of the Kwakiutl Indians," he says. Bailey believes the analysts...
Corn in Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining...
The results are dramatic. Last week engineers at Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City and a hundred other cities were reading flow-rate gauges, poring over charts of rainfall data, passing on warnings to danger spots. Yet, after one of history's worst, wettest winters, the situation seemed generally under...
THE DOOMED OASIS, by Hammond Innes (314 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), is a stouthearted attempt to win back the desert from the venery-in-Araby school-Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste...