Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expertly staffed General Hospital in Newcastle, five miles away, she was given 48 hours to live. Then, as Ellen Moore kept on fighting for her life, George Frederick Rowbotham, one of Britain's most noted brain specialists, took charge. He had no hope of saving her unborn child, but he hoped to save her life. As his patient's temperature began to rise dangerously, he had her swathed in bags of ice and dosed her with drugs. Her temperature fell to 85°, where it was kept off and on for weeks...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...
...bluntly," said Rickover, "our schools do not perform their primary purpose, which is to train the nation's brain power to the highest potential . . . We shall not do justice to our talented youth until we seek them out at an early age-no later than ten or eleven-and educate them separately...
...electronic toys, lifting ideas from the world of automation and guided missiles, are bound to dazzle adults as well as children. Among the startlers: "The Brain" ($11.95), a missile-shooting, robot-manned car with an electronic circuit built into the robot's head, put out by St. Louis' Jay V. Zimmerman Co., and remote-controlled buses and boats imported from Japan. "The Brain" can be preset to scoot about, turn and dodge on its preordered course, and fire its plastic missiles automatically. The buses and boats can be started, stopped and turned right or left by radio signals...
Died. Marshall Field III, 63, burly. silver-haired multimillionaire philanthropist, New Dealing magazine (Parade) and newspaper (New York's defunct PM. Chicago's Sun-Times) publisher and rich man's grandson; after brain surgery; in Manhattan. Chicago-born Marshall Field was educated at Eton and Cambridge, never learned to bear comfortably the estimated $168,000,000 he inherited from nail-hard department store Tycoon Marshall Field I, once said: "If I cannot make myself worthy of three square meals a day I don't deserve them." Rich Boy Field won a captaincy and a Silver Star...