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Audience reaction was immediate and mixed. Booing students quickly organized into a small parade which, however, soon disbanded. A few minutes later, students set off a sodium bomb behind the home of M.I.T.'s President James R. Killion. The majority of the crowd, however, went back to the books...
...nurses have come to call him, seemed to have something wrong with an artery. To get a clearer picture, the doctors decided to inject a dye into the artery. At 1:30 p.m. on March 15, the patient was wheeled into the X-ray room and anesthetized with sodium pentothal. Before Surgeon J. Cuthbert Owens could inject the dye, the patient began to turn blue. His heart had stopped...
...almost six years, the Department of Health had added small amounts of sodium fluoride to the drinking water in Newburgh, N.Y.* (pop. 31,924). To act as "control" for the test, the city of Kingston (pop. 28,869), 32 miles up the Hudson, went without fluorides. In both towns, schoolchildren between the ages of six and twelve were methodically checked for signs of cavities...
...psychologist, whom the doctors considered a well-balanced individual, stuck to her cover story in spite of the sodium amytal. The ex-model, who was classified as "emotionally labile," i.e., unstable, forgot her cover story and told the truth soon after she got the needle...
...experiment indicates, according to Professor Redlich, that well-balanced people can stick to a lie in spite of sodium amytal. But neurotics are likely either to confess eagerly, as the ex-model did, or get all tangled up, sometimes telling fantasies more damaging than the truth. In any case, Professor Redlich believes that statements made under the influence of sodium amytal and related drugs should not be treated as simple truth. A psychiatrist might make some sense out of them, but not a judge or a jury...