Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...
...M.I.T] is a scientific arsenal of democracy. From its halls and laboratories come the knowledge and technique, the brain power and the resources which contribute to our national survival in an era where the laboratories and technicians of our enemies work sleeplessly to out-distance us in the race to harness the latent secrets of nature as tools of their supremacy...
...during the mornings that Jacobs finds excitement and crisis. Twice in a single day this year he was asked to obtain rare plastic shunt valves for delicate brain operations in South America. Jacobs found a medical supply firm that had them, and persuaded a private airline passenger to carry them down in his baggage...
...BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN by Len Deighton. 312 pages. Pufnam...
What all this means, say Brooks and Mueller, is that further study is necessary to check the possibility that uric acid serves as a stimulant to the higher cortical (reasoning) centers of the brain. The Ann Arbor observations also suggest that since a tendency to gout is inheritable, an aptitude for a high level of leadership and achievement may be inherited also. Gout is apparently as common as ever (20 times more common in men than in women), but it attracts much less attention nowadays because it can usually be controlled with drugs, such as colchicine and probenecid...