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...female sex hormones (estrogens). Physicians prescribe it for some women whose systems need more estrogens, for some men with prostatic cancer. Back in 1947, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized poultry farmers to use stilbestrol as a chemical castrater for cockerels, by implanting 15 mg. at the base of the skull (so that any residue at killing time would be thrown away with the head). Thus artificially caponized, the fowl gain weight faster than surgically castrated birds. Caponettes made up about 1% of the U.S. poultry output, were sold mainly in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good...
...launching pads are T-3 ICBMs, with a range of more than 5,000 miles, and the T-2 and T-4 IRBMs, with ranges of 1,600 and 1,000 miles respectively. If Soviet missile doctrine is similar to the West's, each base has about 15 missiles. According to the Institute, the Soviet missile force numbers about 200,000 men, commanded by an Engineer-General with responsibility for the manufacture of nuclear weapons and missiles as well as testing and operations...
From the NASA base at Wallops Island, Va., a Little Joe rocket (a cluster of eight solid-fuel rockets) took off with a full-scale astronaut capsule perched on nose. No man was inside it, only a rhesus monkey named Sam and a collection of meal worms, bacteria, molds and other biological samples. Strapped to a kind of cocoon lined with plastic foam sat Sam the monkey, riding in astronaut's "chair." Sam and cocoon were enclosed in an inner, air-conditioned " logical package," thick with straps, wi and instruments to test Sam's reactions...
Space-toy sales this year are sparked by new touches of realism. Explains Remco Industries President Saul Robbins: "Instead of the old Buck Rogers fantasy of flapping from one planet to another with a vaporizing gun, we're emphasizing land-based space. Children have to have something they can understand. Outer space is too futuresque for them." To duplicate the thrill of a rocket launching, Louis Marx & Co., world's largest toymaker, is offering a Cape Canaveral Missile Base set (list price: $7.98), with a phonograph record of actual launching countdowns. Ideal's Electronic Fighter Jet (list...