Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts of the body as small as the tongue, fingers, or even eyelids, there is evidence of much overlap and feedback. Speech obviously demands control of movements of different parts of the mouth-but not until after the speaker has decided what words he wants to say. So both motor control and intellectual processes are involved...
...crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture...
...Wiggins said yesterday that Sullivan "will receive more consideration than developers from other localities" to improve the corner of the Yards near the Treadway Motor Inn. If Harvard is able to buy the Yards, that corner will probably be given to Sullivan under a 40 year lease...
...were median earnings of $6,521 in petroleum and coal products, $6,373 in communications and $6,018 in aircraft and parts manufacturing. For women the highest median wage was in railroads and railway express with $4,435, while petroleum and coal products followed with $4,111 and the motor vehicle and equipment industry offered...
...Looking even farther into the future, Wisconsin's quixotic Democratic Senator William Proxmire named Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as "the leading choice right now for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968-although he apparently is not a Democrat." McNamara, former president of Ford Motor Co., joined the New Frontier as a registered Republican, but calls himself an independent. Proxmire did add that the Democrats will have lots of other attractive possibilities in '68, when Jack Kennedy will, under the Constitution, be disallowed from seeking a third term. Among Proxmire's nominations: Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Massachusetts...