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The best scale invariant test of exponentiality against one-sided gamma alternatives is shown to be based on a well known statistic considered by Moron [4].

The sinister hump of Richard III, the evil prothesis of Captain Hook, the fear-inducing, thumping wooden leg of Captain Ahab, and the pitiable crutch of Tiny Tim are all allegorical symbols in our culture. Because books, especially classics, are powerful tools by which civilization perpetuates its values, English teachers have a unique opportunity and responsibility to counter the injustice suffered by truly disabled persons caused by such negative stereotypical portrayals. The fact that the message appears in a classic gives it respectability and even prestige, making it difficult for those with real disabilities to overcome deeply entrenched, complex prejudices (Thurer, 1980). Lenny, the mentally retarded character in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men who killed living thingsincluding a young woman-because he was unaware of his own strength, is an image that may very well be involved in the minds of those who oppose group homes for the developmentally disabled (Biklen and Bogdan, 1977). Steinbeck's Lenny was based on the image of "the moron as a menace" popular during the early part of this century. Kanner (1964) captured the essence of this image when he noted that

R S Scorer London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1977 pp xii + 171 price £3.95 We have been warned now for several years that we are consuming too much. Irreplaceable raw materials are being squandered and sources of energy are likely to dwindle.

Diana Patterson (January, page 5) discussed "The index horror", or the results of trying to simulate alphabetical order by means of ordinary character-by-character computer sorting. Her example was "Workspaces" preceding "WAIT". Her diagnosis was the failure to equate upper and lower case forms of the same letter. But hold on, it gets worse.

In no branch of the science of medicine does a lay diagnosis have weight in a court of law as it does in mental aberration. In most types of active insanity there are manifest and obvious symptoms which brand the as "crazy" in the eyes of the laity. For instance, the testimony of a lay person has been admitted to substantiate the sanity of a person making a will on his death-bed. In many cases of the systematized delusions (paranoia) without deterioration, the interval manic-depressive and certain alcoholic hallucinosis cases of a mild type there may be external evidence of insanity to the layman, but in some cases this is lacking. There is one great class of defectives of tremendous importance from a eugenic, social and economic point defectives. view that is not ordinarily recognized by laymen as defectives. This class comprises the morons and constitutional inferior types. These terms

I confess I opened this book, "Talking with Patients," with much misgiving because so many books of this kind treat the reader as though he were intellectually on the level of a high-grade moron and make resounding pontifications about the obvious. This is no such book. First, it separates patients into two groups, children and adults, and further divides children by ages, pointing out the remarkable language and speech differences that children of different ages exhibit, particularly in terms of their reactions and responses to the inquiries of physicians. Perhaps the theme of this book is best stated by the author who says "Any patient who comes to a doctor, for whatever reason, deserves to be looked at with the broadest kind of vision. One must place all his sense organs at the disposal of the patient and must set his mind ready to receive the telltale messages that emanate

Through the courtesy of Dr. L. L. Stanley, surgeon to the state penitentiary at San Quentin, Calif., I am privileged to report further on Case 9, previously reported,1and to present a photograph of the condition of the implanted testes taken three months after the operation. It will be recalled that the glands were taken from the body of a negro who had been hanged for murder, and implanted in the scrotum of a white moron, apparently with remarkable results. Supplementing his previous report, Dr. Stanley writes under the date of February 11, about five months after the operation: "The testicles in the case, a report of which I gave you, have since atrophied very little, and the patient has improved to a great extent. Several days ago he went out to our 'honor camp,' where prisoners are building highways. This camp is about 200 miles distant from the

To the Editor: —Now that Professor Jastrow has so ably disposed of the case of Willetta Huggins by stating that the medical profession has the "will to believe," there remain a few other questions to be disposed of. How does it happen that her case was diagnosed by the psychologic department of Wisconsin as "almost a moron"? Do any of the physicians who saw her in Chicago or Evanston think her a moron? How does it happen that the psychologic department of Northwestern University has no instrument fine enough to determine her threshold of feeling? How does it happen that she distinguished blue, yellow and green in a mixture of blue and yellow that to a normal eye appeared green only? How does it happen that she distinguished between the streaks of pink and green feldspar? Her vision would seem to be abnormally acute instead of being, as every one

Henry Blodget is a clueless hypster. Seizing on Apple's good Mac numbers, he has pronounced the end of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Windows . He writes: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]