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...Space Platform . . . has definitely been established . . . Come in, Space! . . . Tell the listeners here on earth, tell us, in your position far out there in free space . . . what's it like to be actually a, part of the solar system, with your own private orbit? . . . Do you feel the pull of gravity?" "No, sir, I don't . . . Now that you mention it, I don't feel the pull of dames, either . . . You suppose gravity has anything to do with sex? . . . I know I don't weigh anything, and when you don't weigh anything...
...human frame stand the painful acceleration (at least three times the pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision...
...love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...
...tell you who sent it. The same person who has sent it to me for 50 years would be very annoyed with me if I told who it was") and gave some advice for the troubled times: "Don't bellyache, Get out and work-this country will pull through...
Mitch Miller, director of pop music for Columbia Records, got a telephone call last week that made him pull his beard. Musical bootleggers, said his tipster, were copying Rosemary Clooney's (and Columbia's) fast-selling disk Come on-a My House, then peddling it cut rate to distributors under phony Columbia labels...