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Residents of the following 20 states must register in person before their local board to be permitted the absentee ballot: Alabama, Connecticut, Deleware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming...
Registration and the necessary declaration of residence can be accomplished by appearing in person before the Cambridge Board of Election Commissioners, 362 Green Street near Central Square before the deadline of 10 p.m. Friday. The Commission office will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. every day except Friday when voters will be registered continuously from 8:30 a.m. until the final closing...
Waves of Memory. But how does the brain call up these "memories" when it wants them? Neurologists have known for many years, said Dr. Hoagland, that under certain conditions (when a person is awake with his eyes closed) waves of electricity, about ten a second, pass rhythmically over the top of his brain. These "alpha waves" have been used to diagnose various brain conditions, but for a long time no one understood their function. Now, said Dr. Hoagland, many neurologists believe that they are "scanning devices" like the electron beam that scans the image in a television transmission tube...
...instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron, can best help the worker realize himself by believing "in the right and ability of workers to share in the task of thinking and planning...