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After 20 minutes, peace returned to the chamber, now slopped with ink and blood and littered with glass shards, torn paper and shredded shirts. One usher went to the hospital with a brain concussion; a Red sported a two-inch-deep gash in his scalp; a Demo-Christian nursed a badly bruised abdomen; the House first-aid station impartially bandaged Red heads and court-plastered Demo-Christian faces...
...Cardinals use a fast-breaking offense with Teachout setting up most of the plays. Rack, the best set shot on the squad, usually leads the scoring, while 6 foot 3 inch May, the tallest starter, can either rebound or shoot effectively from close...
Such a station, says Von Braun, could dominate the world. Every two hours it would circle the earth, and as the earth turns below it, every part of its surface would come into view. A 100-inch telescope parked in space and manipulated by remote controls could distinguish objects on the earth only 16 inches apart. This, he believes, would permit U.S. observers to report, say, every change of the Kremlin guard. Large objects, such as Russian air bases, would show up plain...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
Grudge Fight. Up to last week, Tennessee Gas's hard-fighting President H. Gardiner Symonds, 49, had won the edge in what for him was a grudge fight. He had been smarting ever since Texas Eastern outbid him in 1947 to win control of the war-surplus Big Inch and Little Big Inch oil pipelines and converted them to gas (TIME, Feb. 24, 1947). Determined to beat his rivals into New England, Symonds formed a subsidiary, Northeastern Gas Transmission Co., and in 1950 filed an application to build a line into New England from the Buffalo terminus of Tennessee...