Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. General Frank F. Everest, 52, deft right hand to Nate Twining (as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations) gains a star, becomes head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Blunt, tobacco-chewing West Pointer Frank Everest is the Air Force's outstanding global Ops (Operations) brain, commanded a heavy-bomber group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a Pentagon planner. After duty in Alaska and with the Atomic Energy Commission, Everest, like Anderson, led the Fifth Air Force in Korea, came home to join the Air Force's inner circles...
Early in the life of the regime, many Argentines suspected that Admiral Rojas was the strongman, the brain and nerve behind Aramburu. Since then, the President has shown abundant forcefulness and leadership, and Rojas has proved willing to remain the loyal subordinate. One reason is that the two men are personal friends, dedicated to the same ideals. Another is that the army (100,000 men) and the air force (20,000) might become ominously restive if an admiral of the navy (20,000) were made President. "Between the admiral and me," says Aramburu, "there is great understanding. He is always...
...name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality as well as quantity from that of even the higher apes. As a Pavlovian, Sargant sees...
...promptly went to sleep and snored loudly; others became loud and boisterous; some were "gay and irresponsible"; most had slurred speech. By blood tests, the researchers found that the drug had not only increased the effect of alcohol but had actually boosted the amount circulating in the blood and brain, and had altered the chemical processes by which the body breaks down alcohol...
...effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long as 18 months, and another for eight months, so, while it may be relatively safe, it is no prompt cure...