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...that are unprecedented in the fair game: a projected $99.1 million surplus in the fair's two seasons, after paying back $24 million to New York City for expenses incurred, plus giving the city an additional $40 million. Thus the fair may not present the future with the impact that a look at television, nylon and air conditioning had in 1939. But it will make far more money and pull more people through its gates than any other fair anywhere, ever...
...Financed by the Federal Aviation Agency at a cost of $168,000, the project was planned by private aircraft companies, commercial airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Its aim: to test new passenger safety devices and to analyze the pattern of structural damage wrought by such an impact...
Main concern of the researchers as they raced to the wreckage was the fate of steel-framed, rubberized manikins strapped to seats inside the plane. To record the stress of impact, a dozen of them had a chestful of sensitive equipment. It will take months to analyze these data, but researchers were pleased to find that most of these "passengers" came through well enough to indicate a good chance of survival...
...major survival aid proved to be a new plastic air bag tucked into the rear of one seat; inflated before impact, it spread backward in two sections-one over the feet and legs of the dummy in the seat behind, the other over its upper body-and cushioned that "passenger" against impact injury. Such bags, which can be inflated by a switch in the pilot's compartment when a crash seems probable, are the first devices for individual passenger safety under serious consideration by the industry since the safety belt...
Although he would not confirm the reports, Jerome Grossman '38, chairman of PAX and campaign manager for Hughes's 1962 Senate race, said PAX will run "a candidate who will have the same national impact as Hughes." Grossman said the candidate would be running for federal office against a nationally known figure, and would announce his candidacy within 30 days...