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...business of Embryologist Etienne Wolff, of Paris' College de France, is to make monsters. His principal items of equipment are an X-ray machine, a few delicate instruments and an incubator stocked with fertile hens' eggs. The results are enshrined along the walls of his spotless laboratory in row upon row of glass jars filled with alcohol. The jars contain hundreds of monstrous chicks-chicks with one eye or three eyes or no eye at all, with four legs or three legs or two legs fused into one. There are two-headed chicks and three-headed chicks. Professor...
...make a monster, says Dr. Wolff, is to subject an embryo to violent changes of temperature or to inject it with drugs or chemicals. But this system gives the experimenter no control over the monstrosities that it produces. Much better, he thinks, are delicate operations on the embryo, either with X rays or microsurgical instruments...
...Council of Economic Advisors, and Arthur Burns, former council chairman and now president of the bureau. Since it accurately foretold the 1947 and 1953 recessions, the index is now giving many an economist and businessman the recession jitters with its steady downward movement. Last week Dr. Reinhold Wolff, head of the University of Miami's business and economic-research department, predicted an "economic dip-perhaps one that will be quite sharp-pretty soon...
...conversion should not be lumped, that confessions involve different emotional mechanisms. (Another distinction: confessions and temporary conversions are common and easily obtained; true, long-lasting conversions are difficult and more rare.) An exhaustive study for the U.S. Department of Defense by Manhattan Drs. Lawrence E. Hinkle and Harold G. Wolff-based on hundreds of intensive studies of escaped and repatriated prisoners from Eastern Europe and China and with former Red inquisitors who have "come over"-showed that modern techniques of political persuasion behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains are simply an extension of time-honored methods used by cops...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...