Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving curiosity, elephantine memory, gregarious charm, ferocious vitality. Reporter Gunther also has phenomenally sharp ears and eyes for the telling anecdote and the detail that vividly catches the mood. He has a homing instinct for the essentials in a complex situation. He is a master of the art of brain-picking-and of choosing the right brain to pick. From careful homework, he knows precisely what information his story needs, and can extract it with the efficiency of an automatic orange squeezer...
Died. Francisco Duran-Reynals, 58, faculty member at Yale Medical School, one of the first cancer researchers to theorize that the disease may be caused by viruses; of cancer of the brain; in New Haven, Conn...
With the practice of medicine becoming increasingly technical, some doctors dream of a day when an electronic brain might take the place of the physician in diagnosing obscure ills. Last week Dr. Winston H. Price told colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Medical Society of some toddling first steps toward developing such a wonderful widget...
...fashioned progressive" keep him from playing fair. Last week Atlanta-born Tom Stokes won a rare new tribute. His column, which appears in 105 dailies, has not appeared since Jan. 3. It was a casualty of the illness that sent Stokes to the hospital last month for a brain operation. Back from the hospital but still bedded indefinitely, he learned that an old friend, Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, has rounded up an impressive roster of guest columnists from both sides of the Senate aisle and Washington-at-large. Among Stokes's pinch hitters, who took over...
This rough aiming is not good enough, either to hit the moon or to orbit around it. So toward the end of the journey a scanning device will pick up the moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report...