Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Synthetic Hormone. After working for many years on the mixture of powerful hormones secreted by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, Biochemist du Vigneaud succeeded in isolating oxytocin, which stimulates the uterus contractions of childbirth and starts the flow of milk. Then he took oxytocin apart and determined its chemical structure. Final step was to make it synthetically. This was an extremely difficult job, because oxytocin is a polypeptide, a protein-like compound made of eight amino acids, and probably the most complex substance ever synthesized. But Dr. du Vigneaud's synthetic hormone passed all tests...
Their enemy was "Japanese B," a form of encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) akin to those forms which plagued St. Louis in 1933 and recently centered in southern Indiana (TIME, Oct. 10). The nature of the illness has long been known, along with the fact that it breaks out every summer in most of Japan, parts of Manchuria and all of Korea, and a few weeks later in Russia's Maritime Prov ince. However, the most important questions could not be answered for years: How is the disease transmitted? Where does it come from? Who is susceptible...
...Desk Set (by William Marchant) is institutional comedy, dealing with a TV network's research department. The four women in the department-the top one being Shirley Booth-are walking information centers and phone-answering encyclopedias. But elsewhere in the organization, the human brain has been successfully replaced by electronic ones, and soon, menacing the four women's livelihood, a huge mechanical dragon appears in Research...
...Desk Set pits watts against brain cells purely for the gags and gadgets involved. It makes no cultural comments...
Even the advanced students were surprised by the case with which the holds work. For example, one instructor demonstrated a combination press and neck hold. "Don't use much pressure. Just take your time. All you have to do is shut off the brain's blood supply." He grinned and began. The victim was on his back smiling for twenty seconds before his eyes glazed and face blanched. Later, while the instructor massaged his neck, he noted, "All of a sudden, whom...