Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening round of his campaign last week, Brandt boarded a special eight-car maroon train for a whistle-stopping tour through Kassel, the small medieval towns of Eschwege and Northeim, and on to Hanover and Wiesbaden. He assured listeners in the towns bordering East Germany that "each little step toward peace has helped," and prophesied that within a few years families separated by the frontier would soon be able to visit freely again. "We need all the votes we can get," he told the large and enthusiastic crowds. "Help me, my friends." His audiences responded with a chant: "Willy, Willy...
...biofeed-back." In this technique, the patient is taught to achieve some degree of control over such normally involuntary functions as heart rate and blood flow. Using electronic sensors that tell the patient when he has succeeded in altering some internal function, Green and others have been able to train patients to avoid or relieve migraine headaches, control the body processes that may cause ulcers, and raise and lower their body temperature...
...recurring theme: "Let's have more cooperation between American and Soviet scientists." Indeed, ever since the agreement last spring between Presidents Nixon and Podgorny to increase scientific cooperation, there has been a sharply increased flow of official and unofficial scientific visitors from the U.S.-Environmental Chief Russel Train, former AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg and Oceanographer William Nierenberg of the Scripps Institution, to name only a few. One reason for this hospitality is the Kremlin's hope for access to advanced U.S. scientific gear, especially computers. The Russians are also after something else. As one longtime British scientific observer...
...other memorable story, When Everybody Was Pregnant, celebrates the '50s - Updike's time. A stockbroker on a commuting train muses (in the way a stockbroker would if he were John Updike) about the distant, incredible time of young parenthood. "Did the '50s exist?" he wonders. "Voluptuous wall paper. Crazy kids. Sickening sensations of love. The trains slide forward. The decades slide seaward, taking us along...
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: In a promotional advertising gimmick for last summer's job, he once singlehandedly put away for breakfast seven cans of "Nine Lives-Super Supper" between 125th and 218th St. on the Broadway IRT No. 1 train...