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...greyhound, which, after the same operation, is back on the track within two weeks, running a half-mile at 35 m.p.h. While this is no mark for a woman to aim at, Dr. Moss suggested that quick return to full activity should be better for humans than the average present-day convalescence. Patients should not fear that their wounds will tear apart; many surgeons hold that a clean scar, normally healed, is as strong after a few days as it will ever be. Added famed Presidential Surgeon Isidor S. Ravdin: there are measurable medical benefits in getting patients up sooner...
...that is being developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. under the various names of Pied Piper, ARS and Weapon System117L. By next July 1, he said, $50 million will have been spent on the Pied Piper, and $100 million more will be spent in fiscal 1959. The chief failing of present-day satellites is that their batteries run down too quickly to permit them to perform useful military duties such as worldwide reconnaissance. But the Air Force is working on four improved sources of power for satellites. One of them uses sunlight, another nuclear energy...
...Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80 Days by Victor Young. Other companies have rushed into vinyl with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai, by British Composer Malcolm Arnold, skillfully melds...
...days between Sputnik I and Explorer were as important to the U.S. as perhaps any similar peacetime span in its history. To a few querulous quidnuncs they were a time for crying out, for attributing to Russian technology a gigantic leap in military power, for downrating beyond reason the present-day U.S. ability to keep the peace through unequaled sea and air strength. On an Administration all too satisfied with things as they are, Sputnik forced a review of policies and the uncomfortable discovery that the major shortcomings lay in top-level decision-making and policy-planning. To diplomats...
...Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S. defense policy that deserves the most serious debate is the rising argument for some sort of U.S. general staff system in the Pentagon, an argument that has defenders of the present system warning of the dangers of a Bismarck-like Prussian general staff, the reform-minded warning of the dangers of present-day disorganization. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward a U.S. General Staff...