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...question of why men dream is just beginning to yield an answer. One still incomplete search involves attempts to discover a link-logical enough in theory-between REM shortages and mental illness. Another is seeking to discover whether REM sleep and dreams activate the forces that unleash creativity or select what people forget. The experts are beginning to suspect that man's future knowledge of dreams will be generated by scientists who have the sense to take their research home and sleep...
...encouraged scores of other corporations to embark on ventures into artistic patronage. As a corporate Medici, Rockefeller sincerely considers the art that he buys not only a handy way to win investors or project a good image, but also a "notable source of pleasure and inspiration." Executives can select any kind of work they want in their offices (and happy executives are presumably better executives), but all acquisitions are approved by a committee of museum experts. Generally speaking, paintings tend to be by younger lesser-knowns, graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives). The committee also complements its postwar...
...Hotel in Las Vegas. With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming Commission, a computer has recorded the decision-making patterns of some 250 volunteers. The game that they are asked to play (with real money) has two parts: in the first, a player must select two bets, one good and one bad, from four that are offered him; in the second, he has the option to keep or get rid of a bet, depending upon how he judges its value...
...Design School Faculty decided yesterday to leave standing the refusal of the student-Faculty Assembly to select a student for the committee. The Faculty did overrule the Assembly's resolution that no Faculty member should be sent to the Advisory group...
...standing Faculty Committee was to be officially authorized to select a chairman for the Afro-American Studies program. According to an explicit agreement between the Rosovsky Committee, the representatives of Afro, and the standing Faculty Committee-an agreement made before February 11--a Search Committee was to be formed with the power to select a chairman of the Afro American Studies program...