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Champion G-survivor, so far, is Lieut. Colonel John P. Stapp, a husky flight surgeon whose sled rocketed at 175 m.p.h. before being braked. He was strapped facing backward in a specially built seat, which is what saved him. He took 46.8 Gs for .008 seconds (equivalent to running an automobile into a solid brick wall at 120 m.p.h.). His body at the moment of impact weighed close to four tons, and his blood was more than three times as heavy as mercury...
...distinction of Julius Caesar is not the obvious success of Marlon Brando's diction lessons. Far more remarkable is the film's faithfulness to Shakespeare. As this suggests, Julius Caesar is perhaps even more notable for what it is not than for what it is. The film leans over backward to avoid any suggestion of spectacle, and there are no panoramic shots of Rome, no overblown crowd scenes, no technicolor sunsets to draw attention from beauty of language and intensity of feeling. Although the scenario discards some minor scenes, few of the cuts are unkind, and the film happily needs...
...editor, the Plain Dealer named Wright Bryan, 48, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), civic-leading editor of the Atlanta Journal, to replace the Plain Dealer's ailing Paul Bellamy, 68, who has been running the paper for the past 25 years. Bellamy, son of the late Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, will remain on the staff as "editor emeritus...
...much of an increase in world production is needed to raise the backward nations to a minimum standard of decent living? The world needs at least another $25 billion worth of food a year and another $15 to $25 billion in housing, medicine, clothing, etc.,-an increase of 7% to 10% in present world production of consumer goods and services. This is the estimate of Economists Wladimir and Emma Woytinsky, a husband & wife team who have spent five years compiling an exhaustive (1,268 pages) study, World Population and Production, published by the Twentieth Century Fund...
...achieve the necessary increase, the world will need to produce more than four times as much energy by the end of this century as it does now. The demand for more energy is already being felt in backward countries, where the U.S. and Western Europe, by exporting capital and know-how, are setting up a "spiral of industrialization" which will mechanize underdeveloped areas. Say the Woytinskys: "This is a one-way road, and there is no going back to grinding grain and making flour at home...