Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most case-hardened doctors sat on the edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
...perfected, but its dials should soon be as reliable as a well-checked speedometer. Meanwhile, technicians have worked out another trick for Omnirange-DME. By adding a small electronic brain which automatically solves the problem in angulation, it enables a pilot with DME equipment to set an accurate course to an airport miles away from the nearest Omnirange...
...early movies showed light and shade. Human eyes see a great deal more: they are sensitive to color, and are also rangefinders. When both eyes look at the same object, they "toe in" slightly. The brain measures the converging angle, and from it, estimates the object's distance...
Died. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, 80, longtime (1913-41) Harvard professor of banking and finance, and internationally famed monetary authority; in Boston. "Sound Money" Sprague was an adviser to the League of Nations, the Weimar Republic's Reichsbank, the Bank of England. A Treasury Department brain-truster in 1933, he quit in protest against the New Deal's dollar-devaluation policies, wrote his widely quoted Recovery and Common Sense, advocating lower prices and free competition...
...spigot and the liquor gushes out!" Arrested in Belgium, Garageowner Edouard Welcomme and his wife implicated others, and soon the town of Hazebrouck was filled with denunciations and counter-denunciations. Result: Abel Vandamme, a rich textile manufacturer living in a castle near Lille, and accused of being the "brain" of a gang of brandy siphoners, went on trial with 26 others in Hazebrouck last week for what French police grandly called the biggest alcohol fraud in French history...