Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parachutist, who tried last May to make a free-fall jump from 125,000 ft., was injured when his oxygen system failed during the balloon ascent 57,000 ft. above Minnesota and emergency efforts to get him down did not prevent 31 minutes of oxygen starvation, causing brain damage and a coma from which he never awakened; of cardiorespiratory failure; in Philadelphia...
...house-sized globules of tapioca. Then all at once it is swept into a violent whirlpool set up by a fistula that unnaturally connects the carotid artery with the jugular vein. When the hemonauts come out of their spin, they are in the jugular, drifting inexorably away from the brain and toward the heart...
...heart! With horror the voyagers realize that the only way back to the brain lies through the gnashing organ whose terrible turbulence would smash their delicate ship to smithereens. Then all at once top brass (Edmond O'Brien and Arthur O'Connell) has a dazzling idea: if the patient's heart were stopped for 60 seconds, the submarine might squeak through the right ventricle without getting tangled in the chordae tendineae that hang there in hundreds like looping lianas...
...time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality" but also conditions the body and stimulates the brain...
...FREE COUNTRY by Leonard Brain. 192 pages. Coward-McCann...