Word: scalps
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...Scalp, and soon spread to the U.S. where the charter club was organized at Milton, Mass., in 1897. In the intervening years, it had brief periods of popularity and was kept alive during its several down cycles largely through the efforts of the Aiken Preparatory School of Aiken, S.C., which uses it to help teach regulation polo. Explains Carlos Concheso, a New York banker and one of the founders of the U.S.B.P.A.: "It's a good way to develop a feel for the fundamentals, especially for the teamwork that is so necessary...
...member court is still at it, but the day is long past when its revelations could cost a finagler his job -or even his head. "Far be it from us to want to do a scalp dance around public officials," says one of the court's judges. Yet, as a measure of malfeasance in high places and low, the court's annual report, published in paperback last week for $1.50, has become something of a boondoggler's bible. The report names no names and initiates no punitive action, but the mere threat of publication has been known...
Alone in a semidarkened room, a young woman relaxed in an armchair before a blank screen, three electrodes fixed to her scalp and one grounded to an earlobe. Suddenly a pale blue light flickered on the screen and then steadied; a voice said quietly: "That's alpha...
Letting Go. The brain's constant electrical activity produces wave patterns that can easily be measured with an electroencephalograph attached to the scalp. The patterns, recorded by the EEG as tracings on ribbons of paper, come in four main wave lengths: delta (.5 to 3 cycles per sec.), occurring in sleep; theta (4 to 7 per sec.), linked to creativity; beta (13 to 30 per sec.), identified with mental concentration; and the relaxed alpha (8 to 12 per sec.). It was only in 1929 that German Psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered alpha waves and not until 1958 that experimenters began...
...scientists like Mulholland, commercial alpha machines and the "alpha training institutes" now proliferating on the West Coast attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious." Machines operated by amateurs may record little more than amplifier noise or scalp twitches. There is still no proof that alpha and special mental powers go together, though the possibility tantalizes even the scientists. The alpha machine is still a long way from becoming Walker Percy's "lapsometer," which allowed Dr. Thomas More in Love in the Ruins to probe people's minds. But research is too new for anyone to claim...