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...pressed the instrument to the center of my forehead and rotated the handle . . . There was no particular pain as it penetrated the skin and flesh, but there was a little jolt as the end hit the bone . . . Suddenly there was a little 'scrunch' and the instrument penetrated the bone . . . there was a blinding flash . . . The Lama Mingyar Dondup turned to me and said: 'You are now one of us, Lobsang. For the rest of your life you will see people as they are and not as they pretend to be.' It was a very strange experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...running horse. His parlay of talents has already paid him with a jockey's dream: a swank new house in Miami Springs (midway between Tropical Park and Hialeah), an air-conditioned Cadillac, a speedboat, a big farm (in West Virginia). The calculating look of his eyes, the short forehead sloping away from a long brown pompadour, the narrow, impatient face and snappy, little-boyish swagger convey the presence of a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bully & the Beasts | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...spectacular 14-minute brawl. After them skidded skateless cops, pratfalling through a Mack Sennett routine, while frantic officials whistled out a string of 27 penalties. At game's end (Montreal 4, Boston 3) the skating wounded included Boston's Leo Labine (five stitches in the forehead) and Jack Bionda (mashed hand), and Montreal's Henri Richard (six stitches in the scalp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...Royal Film Performance in London this fall, Queen Elizabeth II faced a scrawny, sharp-featured young man with shaggy blond hair lying like a bunch of damp seaweed across his forehead. How, the Queen asked, did he like movie work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piltdown Poppa | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Strangely, two experiences-or "strips of time," as Dr. Penfield calls them-are never activated at the same time, so there is no confusion. Responses are obtained only from the lobes lying inside the temples, never from the frontal lobes (in the forehead) or the occipital (toward the back of the head). Even in some parts of the temporal lobes themselves, stimulation produces no effect. And never does stimulation lead to constructive thinking or purposeful action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Brain as Tape Recorder | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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