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Taking another tack, a study made of 600 people in Florida found that the people who woke up most happily were the ones accustomed to regular sleeping habits. Hypnotists can occasionally snap morning drowsers out of their grogginess by implanting suggestions during a trance. It may be, says Psychophysiologist Harvey D. Cohen of Brooklyn's Downstate Medical Center, that researchers will one day show people how to synchronize their sleep and work cycles...
...another tack, a reporter asked whether Sato really did party it up with geishas. "Oh, yes," smiled Sato. "We wanted to show the older generation that having a good time with a geisha was not their monopoly. Too bad prices are so high nowadays." ∙∙∙ Canada's swinging Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has never been one to shun the public eye. So when he went to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, he took along a planeload of newsmen. Then reporters got Divorcee Eva Rittinghausen to gush after a date with...
Judge Oske's reasoning took another tack. It is one that could, if it is accepted as a precedent, free 45 remaining former Nazi judges and prosecutors from prosecution. Oske insisted that Rehse and his seven fellow judges on Freisler's dreaded Volksgerichtshof did not deliberately subvert the law as then applicable. Thus, while the sentences in which Rehse participated were "inhuman as seen today, in times of war no nation and no state can get along with normal means of defense. Germany was in a life-and-death struggle...
...heard the show's moral: to wit, "without a hurt the heart grows hollow." Now if you read that with a Phyllis McGinley intonation--as is often done--you've got a pretty saccharine play on your hands. The Leverett House Opera Society has chosen a different tack. The prevailing tone of the evening is a cool, balanced wit. Rather like a mellow Oscar Wilde propounding the importance of being burnished. The results are marvelous...
Steel stirred up the trouble by writing an article entitled Nine Men in Black Who Think White, a blunt attack on the U.S. Supreme Court that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. These days, the court is criticized most often as excessively libertarian; Steel took an opposite tack. He charged the court with maintaining the status quo and striking down only "overtly obnoxious" discrimination...