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...wild boy of Aveyron to dinner at her chateau in 1801. Most of Parisian high society would be there, from the future king of Norway to Napoleon's valet de chambre. But of her guests Madame Racamier chose to seat beside her the thirteen-year-old wild boy (called Victor), anticipating an evening of compliments from this new talk of the town. Victor hardly obliged. After devouring his own meal (and part of hers as well), he burgled a dozen desserts and scandalized the guests by racing bare-breasted through the manicured grounds...
...woods of central France entered a world of misconceptions when he surfaced in 1800. Philosophers expected him to fulfill Rousseau's ideal of the "Noble Savage," while a new breed of doctors eyed him for a test of behavior modification. So many ogling spectators filled the streets when Victor was first taken to Paris, in fact, that he became victor and began to bite the scores of outstretched hands...
Francois Truffaut's touching film, the Wild Child, has made the subsequent story well-known: a rising doctor, Jean-Marc Itard, took Victor in hand when other specialists gave up and tried unsuccessfully for five taxing years to teach the deaf-mute boy to use language. Apart from Itard's own account of his tribulations, no one has since returned to determine exactly why the wild child experiment failed. This is what Lane, a psychological from Northeastern, sets out to do. And beyond some amusing and touching anecdotes, he has produced much less a narrative history than a highly academic...
...wild inflation and deep recession that marred the early 1970s. From almost 4,000 in 1969, the number of acquisitions fell to little more than 1,000 last year, according to figures compiled by Niederhoffer, Cross & Zeckhauser Inc., a New York firm that specializes in arranging acquisitions. Recalls Chairman Victor Niederhoffer: "People thought there was something wrong with a company if it acquired something...
Even as negotiations concerning the fate of Howard Hughes' vast empire intensified last week, new and horrifying details came to light about the reclusive billionaire's last hours. The source was Dr. Victor Manuel Montemayor Martinez, 47, a leading Acapulco physician who often treats ailing tourists...