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Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows. And a shrill noise may throw them into something like an epileptic fit. This elementary experiment has long served as an introduction to the study of fear. Last week, however, some very contradictory rat findings were reported in Science by a Johns Hopkins psychologist, William J. Griffiths...
John R. Longo is a shrill, splenetic young New Jersey citizen who hates arrogant Boss Frank Hague to the point of doing something about it. He once served seven months in jail when he got too enthusiastic about collecting signatures of voters (some of them nonexistent) in a primary fight against Hague. Fortnight ago he was convicted again-in Hudson County, where Mayor Hague appoints the judges-this time for altering his voting record. The evidence, as presented in court, was all against him. But New Jersey's Hague-hating Governor Charles Edison cried: "Persecution . . . outrage!" Then Governor Edison...
...separated three years from ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell, ex-Minister to Canada, turned out to have secretly sued him for divorce, in Reno a fortnight ago. She charged cruelty. He had already sued last September in New Jersey, charging desertion. Last week the struggle seemed likely to be shrill. The tobacco heiress charged that Jimmy had demanded $7 million as a financial settlement. He promptly denied it; his attorneys sadly remarked that now he might have to "present to the courts matters which he had hoped, out of kindness to her, would remain unrevealed...
...Spain itself there was no true unity to meet such a crisis. Of the groups supporting his Government, none was entirely satisfied. Some were definitely dissatisfied. In shrill alarm the Madrid El Espanol denounced "conspiracies against the Caudillo which favor a regime of free-for-all shooting." The paper added: "At present the operations against the legitimate regime are being launched in the name of nationalism, capitalism, monarchism, conservatism and Christian liberalism. All these groups, in league with the Reds in a half-baked alliance, fear the Falange and its unified leadership...
Grubby Mexican peons, sodden and weary from their long annual pilgrimage to Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit, God of Drunkenness) in Tepoxtlaá, staggered into Mexico City last week to find themselves bedeviled by cops, shrill women and crackdowns, tempted with low-taxed beer. The Mexican Government was full swing in its campaign to wean peons away from their vile national drink, pulque (pronounced pool-kay), educate them up to beer...