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...make electric-shock treatment quicker and safer, the University of Texas' Dr. Neville Murray recommended giving the patients succinylcholine (instead of curare) to relax their muscles, and no barbiturates. The whole job can be done in 80 seconds, he reported; patients need little restraint (one attendant is ample) and do not hurt themselves. Most can soon walk back to their rooms...
Even in these jittery times, people don't talk fast enough to suit University of Illinois Professor Grant Fairbanks. The ear, says Fairbanks, is quicker than the tongue, and words can be understood faster than they can be spoken. Determined to work the human ear to capacity, Fairbanks and his associates have invented a "Time Compressor," a tape recorder that can take brief samples of speech, patch them together electronically and get a result that hardly alters the sound of the original words. By changing the size of the samples and varying the speed of the recording, speech...
...improvement in Mike came a bit quicker than the average. Dr. Dreikurs and his dedicated associates who run the four Chicago guidance centers (without fees) figure that ten counseling sessions is about par for the course. Many parents pick up so much from just sitting in on the group sessions that they do not need individual treatment for themselves or their children. In little more than four years, the centers have helped 6,000 parents and 5,000 youngsters to win release from such family problems as lying and stealing, bed-wetting and school failure...
...back alleys. Sallying forth on mission after mission from her base in Control Tower C, Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other cats disappeared or died, but Momi stayed on, even condescending to learn a few parlor tricks (like raising...
...Quicker Than the Eye. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mrs. Arline Meehan, reporting to police that someone had stolen her furniture, explained that she had left it on the curbstone five weeks before, when she was evicted, but that the neighbors had promised they would keep...