Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical economic goals of Kubitschek's term are set forth in a 247-page document drafted in 1955 by Kubitschek and a brain-trust panel headed by Lucas Lopes, a brilliant engineer who bossed the Minas Gerais electric-energy program. To implement the plan, the President will set up, with Lopes as chairman, an Economic Development Committee made up of key administration officials and economic technicians. Kubitschek expects private capital to do most of the development job. "My government will interfere," he says, "only when private enterprise is unwilling or unable to carry out what is indispensable." The program...
...atmosphere affect the path of its light. Once in a great while the jiggling stops, and for an enchanted instant Mars stands still, its surface covered with fine and fascinating detail. These intervals of good "seeing," however, do not last long enough to be photographed, and the human eye-brain combination is not designed for recording much information instantaneously. So Mars observers seldom agree about what they have seen on Mars. The Lumicon and similar devices may end Martian privacy. Even a single good picture may tell whether there is any life on Mars...
...Southern Pacific has concentrated on research and electronics to improve its service, developed a hydraulic, shock-absorbing coupling gear that permits freight cars to be slammed together without damage. The Southern Pacific has saved itself $1,000,000 yearly by putting inventories under the control of an electronic brain. In a new $7,000,000 switchyard at Houston, it installed a radar-electronic computer control system that shunts a freight car to its proper track, computes weight, windage, distance, then brakes the car to a gentle coupling...
...getting the U.S. guided-missile program off the ground (TIME, Jan. 30). Another change at Chrysler: F. W. Misch, 50, vice president, will move up to corporation finance officer, succeeding Financial Wizard George W. Troost, 53, Chrysler's No. 2 man, who died last week after a brain operation...
Convinced that a "thread" somewhere in the human body linked vomiting with many types of illness, Dr. Borison and Columbia University's Dr. S. C. Wang determined, in 1953, the existence of a vomiting control center and a trigger zone in the brain stem. By removing the trigger zone from the brains of dogs and cats, Dr. Borison and his research staff have been able to prevent vomiting that ordinarily follows the injection of certain chemicals into the blood stream...