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...emulation existed among delinquents than among non-delinquents. In the new work it was discovered that the impact of this emotional deprivation, on which much of the building of character depends, is heavier among boys who are characterized by the traits of stub- Stubborness, uninhibited meter responses the stimuli, and acquisitiveness...
...Stimuli. The market's lackluster performance was all the more baffling in the light of last week's spate of encouraging economic news. Personal income in March, the Commerce Department reported, rose $2 billion above the February figure to a record annual rate of $435 billion. More important, the consumers were spending their fat paychecks: even allowing for the effects of a later Easter this year, department-store sales for the second week in April were up 6% over 1961. and auto sales were running a whopping 48% above last year. The only important indicator that...
...suppose a man trained to "respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command" (to bow and yell "Airborne" to a shout of "Hit it") is already partially dead...
...Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker were set to doing pushups. Explained the captain: "We teach them to respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command." Under pressure of this sort, morale is sky-high in the 82nd. Enlisted men call out "All the way, sir!" when they salute an officer, get the reply: "Airborne!" One 82nd sergeant trained men while encased in a crotch-to-neck cast that protected three broken...
...functions: it consumed oxygen, excreted carbon dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury communication system. Out of a porthole and periscope peered two cameras. Special instruments recorded the assorted stimuli that would have assaulted a human astro naut: vicious vibration and gut-wrenching G forces. Automatic apparatus controlled the capsule's flight and descent to earth, just as it would have if a human had been on board...