More “Muggable”

◆ Many people may indicate to criminals that they are easier targets for muggings. How? By the way they walk. That is the conclusion of two New York psychologists based on “muggability” ratings from those most likely to know​—prison inmates who were in jail for assault. The prisoners viewed films of people and indicated the types that they were more likely to mug. Among the ones considered more likely targets were those who walked with some uncertainty, as if in conflict with themselves or unaware of their surroundings. Psychology Today says: “According to the common-sense opinion offered by the Crime Prevention Section of the New York City Police Department, crime victims typically walk around in a daze, oblivious to what goes on around them. That dreaminess, the study confirms, is expressed in body movements that criminals read as a clear signal to move in.”

Another Space Nation

◆ When India put a 77-pound (35-kg) satellite into space this summer she became the sixth nation to do so. The five others are: China, France, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States. India’s 70-foot (21-m), four-stage solid-fuel rocket cost $25 million (U.S.).

Modern “Art”

◆ A recent editorial in the Toronto (Canada) Sun on abstract art brought the following comment from a reader: “Picasso, remarking about his role in modern art, said: ‘I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times, and has exhausted as best he could the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries. Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.’ (Life, Dec. 27, 1968, Pg. 134)” The reader went on to suggest that Picasso apparently viewed his own work as a “bunch of nonsense,” produced primarily for the thousands of dollars he made from it. Often the public may be unaware of the attitude of the world’s “greats” toward those who idolize them.

Highest Fever

◆ Doctors at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital say that the 116.7-degree (F.) fever a patient had may be the highest anyone has ever survived. During a severe heat wave, the 51-year-old man was found in a closed-up apartment, near death. He was rushed to the hospital and packed in ice. It was about 15 minutes after the ice was applied that a higher-range temperature probe recorded the 116.7-degree temperature.

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