Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mendès-France calls his program le New Deal null He worked most of it out himself. Back from Geneva, Mendès set up shop outside Paris in a hunting lodge in the forest of Marly. Outdoors, under the oaks, Mendès met his two economic brain-trusters: Georges Boris, 66, and young Simon Nora, 33. He looked over blueprints proposed by Finance Minister Edgar Faure, and reworded by Boris and Nora. "I seem to find nothing but old projects," he grumbled. "They are neither original nor daring." He wanted a program of "total economic conversion...
...Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...
Suspense (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). An old-fashioned detective pits his wits against a mechanical brain...
Harvard's great Mark IV computer does not spend all its time figuring out problems in physics and aerodynamics. Sometimes its electronic brain cells think about the Bible in Greek...
Dentists, as well as surgeons, have good cause to be wary of the use of anesthesia. Eighteen to 20 patients die in the U.S. each year from anesthesia in dentists' offices. Most common cause of death is brain damage from hypoxia (shortage of oxygen) caused by improper mixture of anesthetic gas, which should never contain less than 20% oxygen. The patient may survive a dose of gas that contains less than this minimum, but if it is prolonged or repeated, he may undergo personality changes or survive only as a moronic "vegetable." One dentist's proposed antidote...