Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been baptized in the Catholic Church and, if that was not enough in a non-Catholic and anti-Semitic country, her father had been a Jewish apothecary. But Carol would not give her up. Said he: "She is the other half of my being, the other half of my brain." When peasants and fascists rioted, Carol took the government into his own hands. He appointed anti-Semitic Premiers, hoping to appease Hitler, but announced "there shall be no violence to Jews...
...human brain is like the ocean in more ways than one. Both have a titanic capacity for good and evil; both have surface waves and unplumbed deeps. What Rachel Carson wrote of the ocean (in The Sea Around Us) is as true of the brain: "The largest and most awe-inspiring waves ... are invisible; they move on their mysterious courses far down in the hidden depths . . . rolling ponderously and unceasingly." This week there was a flurry of medical news made by researchers probing the dark unfathom'd caves of mind...
...TIME, Feb. 9) which, it is hoped, can defeat polio. Key points in his review: ¶The virus can be readily cultivated in tissues from monkeys' kidneys. This process gives a higher yield than using monkey testicles (on which earlier experiments were made) and is safer than using brain tissues. ¶After the virus has been killed with formaldehyde, it can still stimulate the human defensive system to manufacture antibodies which give protection against infection by all three types of polio virus. ¶Given in water, the vaccine produced indifferent results in human subjects, but when prepared...
Bill Berns, 33, is a square-faced radio executive with a crew cut, easy manner, busy brain, and a shoestring for a wallet. As program director for ABC's Manhattan outlet, WABC, Berns's job is putting entertainment and public-service items on his station on a practically nonexistent budget...
...Surgeons at the University of Illinois' Neuropsychiatric Institute finished the job of enclosing Rodney Dee Brodie's brain with skin flaps, in his fifth operation since he was separated from his Siamese twin, Roger (TIME, Dec. 29). Rodney rallied well, is expected soon to begin crawling around like a normal baby, though it will be months before he gets a hard top for his skull...