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...began last week a modern adventure of man against the sky. The Air Force's aim: to suspend one man at 100,000 ft. for 24 hours and chart his reactions-body and psyche-against the textbook theories of life in space...
...Continue." That night, after the earth was dark, Simons' balloon still shone with reflected sunlight. Through his porthole windows, he stared at the most impressive sight of his life: a stratosphere sunset. Checking the changing shades against a spectrum chart, he radioed a fervid description back to earth, once excitedly described a shade as "purplish blue blue." Said he: "There's no color on. this chart to match it. No sunset on earth was ever so beautiful...
...publicity to 1,700 radio stations and major newspapers extolling olive oil as not only tasty but loaded with "beneficial unsaturated fatty acids." On the back of Wheaties boxes, General Mills urges consumers: "Watch the 'fat-calories' in your diet to live longer!" Underneath is a chart (source attributed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports) giving the fat content of scores of foods. High on the list of unfatty foods: the "Breakfast of Champions...
...quotas-despite his free-trade convictions-as a result of an Office of Defense Mobilization report that "the nation's security" was being endangered by the flood of cheap foreign oil. Crude imports have risen by 500,000 bbl. a day in the past five years (see chart) while daily U.S. production has gone up 1,100,000 bbl. But crude imports were scheduled to hit a record 1,200,000 bbl. daily this month, or 16% of U.S. production (v. the 12% limit set by the quotas). As a result of the foreign competition, Texas producers are selling...
...made research staff in the U.S. Weather Bureau. To launch Los Angeles' National Weather Institute in 1945, Weatherman Edward B. Derr merely paid $40 for a set of 15,000 surplus weather maps going back to 1905. By using the old maps and current Weather Bureau bulletins to chart climatic patterns for his customers, and by using his weather-wise head in the bargain, he now grosses well over $1,000,000 annually, has a staff of four meteorologists (salaries: around $10,000). "We make the future out of the present," says Derr, "and the Weather Bureau gives...