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With as many as 40 leads into the brain of a single monkey, Dr. Delgado has found that by passing a current through different parts of the cortex, he can stimulate a resting monkey to raise his paws, scratch himself, turn around, yawn, or start trying to catch imaginary insects. In some monkeys he stimulated the lateral hypothalamus for an hour a day, and the animals ate up to ten times as much as usual. A few days after stimulation is stopped, the monkeys' appetites go back to normal. The seat of a monkey's love for bananas...
...Bell's formula does roughly the same job as a blood sample, but with less mess, using figures instead of blood. When he described it recently to a group of Toronto businessmen, out came pencils and scratch paper for a flurry of quick calculating. Last week, Dr. Bell simplified his formula to read...
Starting from Scratch. When the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the patron saint of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi in 1947 to set up the Moslem state for which he had labored so long, he started from scratch. In the government buildings there was nothing but bare walls and a few rickety tables-no chairs, no typewriters, no files or filing system. Telephones were luxuries, and at first government orders were passed back and forth on scraps of paper; there were no bookkeepers, stenographers or clerks, for the simple reason that, in British India, Moslems were fighters and farmers but never office...
...last 20 years, big-dealing Louis Wolfson has built up from scratch an empire with assets he estimates at $100 million plus. Among them: Manhattan's famed building firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott (Wolfson is chairman), a chain of 21 Florida theaters, Washington's Capital Transit Co., which controls the streetcars and buses in the capital...
...author of Picnic. William Inge is an accomplished technician. He is quite capable of compressing paragraphs and pages of conversation into concise sentences, so that his characters speak, breathe, sweat, and scratch like normal human beings. Picnic is a very successful exercise in reality...