Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fantastic Voyage involves a miniaturized medical team doing tricky brain surgery from inside the patient. The special ef fects are spectacular and won the 1966 Oscar. Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch play two of the tiny people...
...third time long ago, how I've kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore, how I sat in a rage that night with the ... burden of your name pounding in my brain ... and out of what instinct did I decide to write to you? It was a gamble on an equation constructed in delirium, and it was right...
...what he calls a "very 'now' young assistant" (James Brolin) who makes house calls on a 650-c.c. motorcycle. The first episode was about as good as U.S. soap opera ever gets: Can the "now" junior G.P., who mistakenly diagnoses a pretty young schoolteacher's terminal brain tumor as a psychosomatic "sex hang-up," make his peace with her before she dies...
Died. Dr. Warren S. McCulloch, 70, major figure in the field of cybernetics; in Old Lyme, Conn. Multifaceted scientist who embraced the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry and physiology, McCulloch dedicated his life to explaining the workings of the brain and nervous system, especially the thought-storing process, in terms of physical mechanisms. In 1943 he and the late Walter Pitts theorized that the brain could be described as a computing machine, operating on a mathematically logical basis, and that these principles could also be used in computers-a concept that paved the way for great advances in computer technology...
Died. Erika Mann, 63, German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933 was forced to flee Germany after writing and producing a satirical anti-Nazi revue, The Pepper mill. Beginning in 1936, she frequently traveled in the U.S., where she scathingly attacked the Nazis in School for Barbarians, Escape to Life and The Lights Go Down...