Word: understand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line. Since the Russian captain knew only a smattering of English, Lieut. Sheely put in a call for Radioman Roland Poulin, 19, Massachusetts-born son of French Canadians. Poulin was hustled over from Hale, soon found a Russian who could speak French. Still, Poulin had trouble making the Russians understand that the U.S. Government was gravely concerned over the cable breaks...
...Carter's public relations assistant was1) his son, 2) 19 years old, 3) getting paid $11,872.26 a year, 4) splicing public relations into a pre-law course at George Washington University (TIME, March 2), Democrat Carter was unconcerned. Said he: "The folks back home in Iowa will understand." Last week enough mail had flooded Carter's Washington office to make it clear that folks back home did not understand at all. As a consequence, Carter made his maiden House speech, apologized if he had cast reflections on Congress, announced son Steven was taking...
...Institute of Technology developed machine tools with small mechanical brains that take their orders from punched paper tapes. Needing no human help, they eliminated the jobs of many human operators, but as compensation, they created jobs for mathematicians to put their instructions in the number language that their brains understand. Last week M.I.T. demonstrated a second step: it had developed a gimmick to dump the mathematicians...
...relief of pain is obviously one of the main functions of physicians," Boston Psychiatrist Frank Ervin noted last week, then added: "Ironically, it's one of the things we do least well-partly because we don't understand it." But Dr. Ervin is one of a Massachusetts General Hospital research team that is using ultramodern brain surgery both to subdue the severest forms of pain and to learn more about pain's mechanisms...
Want, Want, Want. All his life Henderson has tilted at destiny and lost. His father was disappointed in him; his wife tricked him into marrying her; his children do not understand him. His idealistic urge to be a physician was stillborn. A hulking six-footer weighing 230 Ibs., Henderson is a kind of Herculean wreck with a bad leg from a World War II wound, a deaf ear, a bridgeful of false teeth and a nose bulbous from overdrinking. All he has is $3,000,000 and a demonic inner voice that says "I want, I want, I want...