Word: tools
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Successful Tool. Though the FBI says it uses hypnosis sparingly, mesmerizing consenting witnesses is on the increase as a police investigative tool. The Los Angeles Police Department has worked with the technique since 1970. Noting its success, Psychologist Martin Reiser, head of the L.A.P.D.'S behavioral-sciences services, decided last year to set up a special hypnosis unit, the first in the U.S. Kroger and nine other medical hypnotists trained 14 L.A.P.D. officers in the technique, which dates back at least to ancient Egypt. Says L.A.P.D. Captain Richard Sandstrom, who is currently evaluating the work of the force...
...side were the old-line executives of the Summa Corp., to which Hughes had transferred most of his holdings after selling the Hughes Tool Co. in 1972. On the other was William Rice Lummis, 47, a Houston attorney, who is Hughes' cousin. He is the representative of a small handful of Hughes' heirs, most of whom had not even seen the eccentric recluse for 38 years prior to his death...
Little League Jokes. Professor Fine-whose current work involves analyzing the jokes of a Minnesota Little League team-is anxious to discover why people laugh. "When we learn that, we will be able to use humorous material as a tool." Fine believes most people laugh as much as 1,000 times a day. If so, the news should alarm California Psychiatrist William Fry, who several years ago developed a theory that laughing is physically harmful and can actually kill you. That might still be a better fate than sitting through an academic conference on humor...
...aged and chronically ill. A rival polio-vaccine pioneer, Dr. Jonas Salk, disagrees. Describing the vaccine as safe, he pointed out that even a partial immunization program reduces the spread of the virus by closing what he calls the immunity gap. Said he: "Vaccine is the most useful tool we have for preventing viral disease...
...must love this American view of learning as the tool by which man transforms himself. We Americans believe that everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. There is something admirable about this, yet nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most...