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Spinning Rabbits. The neuron's basic function is to transmit "nerve impulses" by high-speed electrochemical reactions. Hyden's team devised an ingenious way to find out what happens to nerve cells when they receive a stimulus. The scientists spun rabbits on a centrifuge, just fast enough to make them dizzy and cause the cells in the acoustic nerve and the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear (a center of balance) to stimulate the brain with a sense of distress. Then they painlessly killed the animals and analyzed the nerve cells...
Stock-boosting maneuvers are not always so easy to identify or trace. TelAutograph stock zoomed from 9 to 24 in eight hectic trading days last fall after the company created the impression in a press release that it had a franchise on a machine able to transmit writing over telephone wires. The SEC set the record straight (TelAutograph had the machine, but not the only one of its kind). Three weeks ago Sperry Rand Corp. privately showed a group of stock analysts a new product for a computer, although the official announcement was one week off. The company also sent...
...BILLION EXPANSION program was announced by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. for 1961, second largest outlay in company's history, only $100 million below 1960 record. Chief new projects: launching an experimental communications satellite in a north-south orbit over the Atlantic to transmit telephone calls and TV between North America and Europe, and expanding the Data-Phone facilities, by which computers can communicate with one another over regular telephone lines...
Harold Isaacs, lecturer on Political Science at MIT, suggested another difficulty in communicating a true American image to the world. The U.S. he said, emerged from World War II in a position of great power. Many nations expected us to transmit freedom throughout the world overnight. While this was an extremely unrealistic expectation, Isaacs noted, the failure of the U.S. to make any significant improvements shattered the image of the United States as a miraculous nation that could accomplish anything...
...South America, the Arctic and the South Seas. Their estimated ages range from 1000 B.C. to the 19th century. There are glaring ritual masks, delicate canoe figureheads, ornate fly whisks and chieftains' necklaces. A fetish from the Congo bristles with nails that were driven into it to transmit pain to a human foe. A tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard...