Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delaying a formal decision until mid-April, the Six left open the possibility of further discussions with Spain over its economic future. That just about gave Spain a toe hold. But Common Market membership appears impossible as long as Franco rules. El Caudillo's economic brain-trusters would be glad enough to settle for mere trade agreements at present, but their problem now is to keep Franco encouraged despite the slap in Brussels...
...struggle concerns Senator Clair Engle, 52, who is recuperating from a brain operation. Most California politicians feel that Engle cannot possibly conduct a vigorous re-election campaign, let alone represent a key state in Washington, and they want him to retire. Engle's wife, Lucretia, is fighting hard to keep him in the race. The liberal California Democratic Council has already rejected Engle and instead has endorsed State Controller Alan Cranston. Governor Brown, a longtime political colleague of Engle's, announced his support for Cranston...
...which caused a still-continuing stir in scientific circles. The word cybernetics, which Wiener coined, is based on the Greek word for "steersman," and he made it stand for the science of control mechanisms that he showed to be part of neurology, psychology and many other disciplines. The human brain is a control mechanism; so are a computer, a missile's guidance system, even a simple household thermostat. All of them obey the rules that Wiener spelled...
...neurologist and psychiatrist who had spent hours examining Ruby for Judge Joe Brown in order to offer a neutral source of information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler: "I have not tried...
...said softly: "Let us see in the small hours of the morning if we can discover something never lost in this great city of Dallas. I speak of justice." He reviewed the psychiatric evidence, thumped a green cardboard box containing the stack of charts tracing Ruby's brain wave. At the defense table, big Joe Tonahill wept. Jack Ruby, chalk-white, sat listless and still...