Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vagaries of politics tore at the men who did most to shape and promote the EDC idea. First, down went Good European Robert Schuman, France's longtime Foreign Minister. He was thrown aside because France, tortured by division and illusion, turned in confusion and fear from its own brain child. Next went Good European Alcide de Gasperi, and Italy's ratification became questionable. The death of Stalin, and Churchill's insistence on sounding out the dictator's successor, gave the French more opportunity to haggle and hesitate. The EDC idea was close to dying...
...picture of and the article about Regent Roy V. Harris of the University of Georgia reminds me of the little poem by Fred Allen: If a boy is big and his brain is small, He can always go to college and play football...
...charted the physician's responsibility in the prevention of accidents. It begins, they said, with the detection of disorders of the nervous system which may predispose a patient to highway accidents. Chief among these: an uncontrollable tendency to fall asleep (narcolepsy), both petit-mal and grand-mal epilepsy, brain hemorrhages, mental deficiencies and illnesses, Parkinsonism, the aftereffects of lobotomy, and paralysis of nerve centers which govern muscles...
...Hardening of the arteries may be not one disease but many, depending on which arteries are affected, reported Dr. Herman T. Blumenthal of the Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Arteries of the brain, heart and legs are more susceptible to hardening than those of the lungs, liver and kidneys -perhaps because the arteries are made of different types of tissue. Thus, he suggested, the site of the disease may determine its type. Metabolic changes, which have received so much attention, may be the result rather than the cause of the aging and hardening of the arteries...
Died. Henry Bernstein, 77. hot-tempered French dramatist (he fought twelve duels), best-known for his violently pessimistic plays dealing with thwarted passion (Le Secret, Mélo, Espoir): after a brain tumor operation; in Paris...