Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Harrington '58 (D-Salem), a leader in the drive for a sort of "student brain trust," expressed his desire to "include the YD's in policy-making work." Harrington hopes that the interns will relieve some of the work load currently on the legislators and make possible the proposal of additional bills...
Died. Robert Gordon Shand, 70, longtime (1946-63) managing editor of the New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., with a current circulation of 2,000,000 daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
...must assume they will deploy an effective system," even though U.S. missiles and bombers will still be able to penetrate Russian defenses. To enhance the U.S. retaliatory capability, McNamara has recommended production and deployment of the Poseidon missile-a king-size, submarine-fired weapon armed with a bigger brain and decoys with which it can filter through an anti-ballistic defense. The Pentagon has also ordered a special nine-month study of whether the U.S. should build an even bigger super-rocket, tentatively designated the ICM (for Increased Capability Missile...
...incontestably is. Bonds may come and Maigrets may go, but Holmes goes on forever. In the 80 years since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote A Study in Scarlet, the incomparable Brain of Baker Street has inspired 21 stage plays (including a Broadway musical), more than 100 movies, and radio and television dramas innumerable. And in A Study in Terror, the first in a new series of Homespun horrors financed by the Doyle estate, the original private eye is granted a timely new mortgage on immortality...
...opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...