Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...
...nervous system that has decimated Fore tribesmen in eastern New Guinea (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957). Eiro, a 13-year-old Fore boy, died of kuru in his New Guinea highland village in September, 1962. A visiting doctor did an autopsy; he took tissue from Eire's brain, froze it, put it in liquid nitrogen at - 70°C., and shipped it to Bethesda...
There, Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and his colleagues made an extract of the brain material and injected it into the brains of monkeys and a two-year-old chimpanzee named Georgette. Nothing happened to the monkeys, and for 20 months Georgette kept on growing like a normal chimp. Then, last May, Georgette became apathetic and lethargic. Her lower lip drooped, and she shivered at the slightest chill. Soon, she was staggering and stumbling as she walked; if she reached for a banana, she missed it. When she could hardly move her limbs and screamed at the gentlest touch, the researchers...
Rosewall, however, does most of his thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy...
...girls learn arm-locks, hold-downs, and chokes. "But we don't choke the windpipe, she adds assuringly. "We just temporarily cut off the blood supply to the brain." Then the opponent gives up, needless...