Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...
...addition to direct Federal grants and increased taxation, Collins felt that there could be far greater cooperation between Boston and its universities. The city is not getting full alvantage, he said, of the "brain power" available...
...Brain Damage. Though Rhode Island's effort was the most dramatic, it was by no means the only major attack against measles in progress or in the planning stage. In Michigan's Isabella County, after an outbreak in which 92 cases were reported-and 900 suspected-2,076 children were vaccinated in a drive that ended last week. With federal backing, 36 states and 41 communities are setting up vaccination campaigns...
...over the country concern about measles is increasing. At the research level, physicians and other virologists have long been puzzled about how and when the measles virus attacks the brain, as it does in an estimated 4,000 U.S. cases of encephalitis each year. Last week, in the Journal of the A.M.A., a team of U.C.L.A. pediatricians reported finding traces of the virus in the nervous system during the active, red-rash phase of the disease. The discovery casts doubt on the idea that encephalitis is an aftereffect, and it lends a sense of urgency to the preventive campaigns...
With the development of a safe and effective vaccine, says the Journal, measles and its complications-particularly encephalitis, with resulting permanent brain damage and "notable mortality"-can be virtually, eliminated: "All that is needed is wide acceptance and diligent use of the vaccine...