Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely regarded as an unavoidable childhood disease. But measles is a severe illness, definitely dangerous for children under three and for adults; it can lead to pneumonia and severe middle-ear infections (though in well-doctored areas these are now contained by antibiotics). It can also cause brain inflammation with high (10%) mortality and a higher rate of permanent damage; there is a fulminating (fortunately rare) form called hemorrhagic or black measles that swiftly causes death...
HARDENING OF BRAIN ARTERIES and resulting mental deterioration in the aged. (This now causes 30% of admissions to New York's state hospitals and a vast number of milder, nonhospitalized cases.) Drugs could help by improving circulation in the brain, preventing extension of areas damaged by sclerosis, or stimulating the brain's repair mechanisms. Effective drugs for these purposes might outsell anything now on the market...
...life. Since they have no children, she adopts one. Women know best, of course, so never mind whether the woman in this case is really doing her husband a favor-let alone the child. Still, children are cute, and this one is ever so. But the husband, a brain who does basic research in theoretical physics, does not seem to enjoy living in the same house with a walking edition of Bright Sayings, and it takes a special visitation by the ghost of Lauren Bacall, accompanied on the sound track by a heavenly choir, to win him over. This...
...Brain behind Brain is young (28), burly Pierre Bellemare (who also originated a similar show in Italy), a TV program contractor, who believes in "people doing things, not just saying them." As a result, the studio is clogged from week to week with such odd items as a World War I airplane, a collection of vintage automobiles, a chunk of a 17th century galleon. Bellemare draws on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Brawn, goes after horse jumpers, crossbow experts and ice skaters (Amateur Skater Roger Tourne broke the 500-meter record for France on the show) as well as conventional...
...lamasery has been occupied for 300 years with but one project-finding and listing j the 9 billion names of God. The explanation satisfies Dr. Wagner and he packs the Mark V Computer off to Tibet with two technicians, George and Chuck. As "electromatic" typewriters tap out the giant brain's findings, George and Chuck begin to have qualms. The high lama believes that the world will come to an end when Mark V emits the 9 billionth name of God. What if the monks turn violent when the Last Trump fails to sound...