Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pilot Rogers covered the course twice at an average speed of 1,525.95 m.p.h., as measured by radar, tracking cameras and two men lying on their backs on the desert, sighting upward past tight-stretched wires that marked start and finish. The metal skin of the F106 touched 340°...
The F-104C did the work, but Captain Jordan contributed importantly by flying a perfect profile. At 39,800 ft. he kicked in his afterburner and accelerated to Mach 2.36, which is close to the F-104C's maximum permissible speed at that altitude. Then he nosed up at...
Pushbutton Draperies. Local leaders in dentistry had assured Hay that such a hospital was not only desirable but necessary. An estimated 9,000 patients annually need admission to Los Angeles' general hospitals for dentistry, though only 5,000 actually go in. With the city's population zooming, general...
Double Degrees. In October (its first month), the hospital had twelve patients (only five inpatients), got up to 21 in November, then slumped to three a week this month. Clinical Director Robert J. Birnkrant, who is both an M.D. and a D.D.S., notes that operating costs run to $43,000...
"Our shelves hold many books now on the place of faith in science and psychiatry, and on the vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The...