Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Occidental College, the B.D. from McCormick Theological Seminary, and the Th.D. in social ethics from the Harvard Divinity School. His book, War and Moral Discourse, will be published this spring. Last year, he served on an ad hoc committee at the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death...
Died. Marcello Boldrini, 79, Italian scholar-turned-executive who in 1962 succeeded the dynamic Enrico Mattei as president of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Italy's worldwide, state-owned oil corporation; of a brain tumor; in Milan. A onetime professor of statistics, Boldrini joined ENI in 1948 as president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into...
...BERGMAN finds less horror in men destroying men than in a man destroying himself. Maybe he feels war, in its horror, teaches something to those who are left--while a man's war with his own brain can never leave any survivors...
...effects of racism and caste status on learning. The Jensenites can provide this by following Robert Coles and others around in Mississippi and South Carolina to study the parasitic worm and starvation situation among black children. Autopsies of a few who died might yield valuable evidence on the brain damages wrought by malnourishment...
Everybody talks about the good old days in the U.S. at the turn of the century. One gentle but impassioned lady, Dr. Alice Hamilton, remembers it differently-as a grim time when men were immobilized by carbon monoxide gas in steel mills, women suffered brain damage from lead used in the pottery trade and thousands of workers were crippled and died from the inexorable accumulation of poisons in dozens of industries. Almost singlehanded, Dr. Alice drew state and federal attention to the horrors, aroused public indignation and campaigned across the nation until-finally-a body of laws was passed...