Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style playing classically oriented jazz with small symphony orchestras on the West Coast, studied modern classical composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. He has become so skilled in instrumental techniques and music theory that many jazzmen go to him for instruction. "Handy," says Mingus, "is a musician with a brain...
...four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain...
There is no rule of politics that says a U.S. President has to get along with the country's intellectual community. Few Presidents have done so, although most of them have tried-notably, Franklin Roosevelt with his Brain Trust, Kennedy with his White House stable of bright young Harvardmen. Even Lyndon Johnson sought to establish a rapport with the academic world. Last week that link was broken with the resignation of Dr. Eric F. Goldman, 51, who since 1964 had served the Administration as a part-time intellectual-in-residence. That raised a question: Would Johnson, whose appreciation...
Beyond his staff, Kennedy often relies on a wholly informal brain trust-hardly a cabal, but a loose network of friendships acquired during his 15 years in politics. Foreign affairs? He may get help from Richard Goodwin, who wrote both J.F.K.'s "Alliance for Progress" and Johnson's "Great Society" speeches, or from Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who is also known as the best gagwriter of the lot. Military strategy? Roswell Gilpatric, ex-Deputy Secretary of Defense, may offer suggestions. Civil rights? Burke Marshall, Bobby's civil rights chief at Justice and now IBM's general...
That's Correct. The first thing that the student does is peck his name out on the Teletype (to kids who write "Batman," the computer politely responds, "Please file again"). This enables the computer brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice...