Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laborit who ferreted out the unsuspected nerve-center-depressant properties of chlorpromazine, the wonder drug of 1954, which opened up the new field of psychopharmacology (the use of drugs to influence the emotions). It was Laborit who found the formula for the sleep inducer gamma-OH, which has no unpleasant aftereffects...
Boston University Astronomy Professor Gerald Hawkins has a bone to pick with historians who list the seven wonders of the ancient world. It is not that they have picked the wrong wonders, only that their list is too short. Britain's Stonehenge, says the British-born scientist, is the eighth wonder-a remarkable achievement of primitive man. In a new book, Stonehenge Decoded (Doubleday; $5.95), he explains how he turned to a modern computer to unravel the 3,500-year-old mystery of Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's long-kept secret, says Hawkins, is that its vast stone slabs...
...psychiatrist of Baltimore's criminal courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...
...submitting to such exposure, actresses earn about $100 a film, and the whole production budget wouldn't pay the cigar bill on a Darryl Zanuck picture. The average is $8,300, and it is small wonder that the leading studio in the field, Kokuei, paid stockholders a 30% dividend this year. Three of Japan's big five prestige producers-who refused to resort to eroductions-have paid no dividend...
...owned by Actor Paul Newman, three more by Racing Buff Art Sparks of Pasadena. "It's a great satisfaction," says Sparks, "to come up behind a Cadillac on a hill on the way to Las Vegas, let him have the horn and go breezing by. They wonder what happened...