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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients were hitched up to the electrocardiograph, the doctors deliberately stirred up their emotions. Examples: one patient developed a noticeable arrhythmia (irregular beating) when the doctor mentioned his in-laws; a woman patient's heart began skipping when the doctors referred to her illegitimate child; the same sort of extrasystoles (premature contractions of the heart) showed up on the electrocardiograph when they asked a 61-year-old spinster why she had never married...
Scientists have known for a long time that auroras are connected with sun spots and other eruptions on the sun. They were pretty sure that particles of some sort, driven out of the sun, touch off the northern lights when they hit the earth's atmosphere. But they did not know what the particles were. Dr. Gartlein is sure that they are solar protons hitting the outer fringes of the atmosphere at about 300 miles per second. When they capture electrons from atmospheric atoms, they give off a little light. Most of the aurora's light, however, comes...
Burke's financial group is also toying with the idea of setting up some sort of mediation board to act when a group has a dispute such as the Band had with the University this term...
...order to function in a workable fashion, the Student Council has split itself into committees of one sort or another--right now there are some 37 such committees. In order to find out what these committees have accomplished, the Council asks each of them to submit a report--almost every weekly Council meeting is devoted to discussion of one or more of such reports. Last December one of these committees--the one on Class Affairs--drew up and offered to the Council a comprehensive and well-thought-out plan for a revised schedule of class activities and organization. After...
...into the Spring. But last classes were deceptive. Problems never died away that neatly--never trickled off promptly at one o'clock on Friday or Saturday. If only they did, Vag mused. Wouldn't it be nice to declare a reading period for the Palestine Situation. A sort of academic moratorium, when everyone would catch up on their Required Reading. He wondered if examination conflicts were worse than ideological conflicts. One could be prevented--why not the other? Might set up a committee in charge of examination groups; perhaps a branch of the Italian delegation, assigning roman numerals...