Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons, Home Secretary Richard A. ("Rab") Butler was asked whether he was satisfied that Fuchs's "brain would be of no further use to the Russians." In the fast-moving world of theoretical physics, Fuchs is considered way out of date, so Butler merely answered dryly, "I cannot extend my influence as far as that...
...soldiers are turned loose, each carefully convinced by the brain-conditioner that his unit has wiped out an entire company of Chinese, largely thanks to the efforts of a tall, dour sergeant. The leader of the patrol recommends the sergeant for the Medal of Honor, and he returns to the U.S. amid press-led drums and bugles, unaware that he is a walking time bomb conditioned to murder at the command of a Stateside operator...
...produces some of the country's ablest pure physicists; it has grown from the nation's main wartime radar laboratory to the leading center of electronics and computer development. Out of its orbit have spun a dozen graduate-launched electronics companies (e.g., Raytheon) in the golden brain center of surrounding Cambridge. It attracts more foreign professors (198 last year) and has a higher proportion of foreign students (12.4%) than any other U.S. institution. Above all, M.I.T. has led in broadening scientists by trying to ground them as thoroughly in the liberal arts as in the arts of technology...
...strokes-accidents in the brain's blood supply-are only less common than heart attacks, and can cause more severe crippling. Dr. DeBakey tackled these, installed artery grafts in cases where the blood stoppage had occurred at an accessible site below the skull (TIME...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain...