Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...
...beliefs together in a new party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
Road to Withdrawal. At first glance there would seem to be little connection between cerebral palsy, which results from damage to the movement-control centers of the brain, and deep breathing. However, Speech Therapist Harrington (no M.D. but a Ph.D. from the State University of Iowa) noted the distress that besets so many C.P. victims when they try to talk. It comes, he reasoned, from the fact that breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half...
...children and is confident that better breathing has bettered them all around. But the numbers of U.S. cerebral palsy victims are estimated as high as 750,000; at least 550,000 afflicted from birth, the rest stricken in later life as a result of wounds or infections affecting the brain. For the 15,000 in Los Angeles there are more and better-planned facilities than in most communities, largely coordinated from the office of the United Cerebral Palsy Association's center. Orthopaedic Hospital's C.P. unit is set up in a converted stable. In more conventional settings...
About 90% of the newcomers pay their own way to their new homeland, but, conscious of her need for human brain and brawn, underpopulated Venezuela spends about $1,000,000 a year recruiting and transporting immigrants and setting them up on farms in the interior. Said a Caracas newspaper: "The republic needs immigrants in abundance to increase our human resources. We ask only that they be men of labor and respectful of our laws...