Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage of science and socialism, in Wilson's vision, will ensure accelerated technological progress that can make Britain "the pilot plant of the world." A socialist government will radically step up the training of more scientists, ensure that they are creatively employed, and staunch the "brain drain" to the U.S. by offering them the prestige and prospects for which many of the country's ablest men now cross the Atlantic. With heavy state support for their work and more "purposive use of research," he prophesied, British scientists will yield new products, new laboratories, new industries, new sources...
Absent: Democrat Clair Engle of California, recuperating from brain surgery at Bethesda (Md.) Naval Hospital; he sent word that if he had been present he would have voted...
...condition of Patrolman Edward C. Callahan, 36, father of two, was listed as critical even before the famed neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital had fully assessed the damage to his brain. Callahan had been shot in the head while trying to stop a holdup at a suburban Boston supermarket, and his fight for life mounted into agonizing suspense-not only for his family and for the surgeons who were caring for him but for another family and for other surgeons in another hospital on the other side of town...
...deathwatch went on while the M.G.H. surgeons did everything possible to pull Callahan through; they even dropped the temperature of his entire body to decrease his brain's need for oxygen. But he showed no sign of regaining consciousness. On Monday, when all hope had faded, Dr. Russell tackled his most difficult task. He told the wom an who was about to be widowed what his colleagues wanted. Ermalinda Callahan replied without hesitation: "Go ahead if it will help someone else...
...Brain. Ironically, Philadelphia is one of the places where the most intensive work has been done on crib deaths. Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena, who has studied the problem for years, says that as many as 80% of crib deaths cannot be explained even after an unusually detailed autopsy. Dr. Frederic Rieders, the city's chief toxicologist, discovered an unidentified red substance in the brains of 80% of babies whose deaths are unexplained, and has found the stuff in only 20% of cases where there is a known cause of death. But what it is, or what relationship it bears...