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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Less than three years ago, with its famed test pilot Captain Charles E. Yeager at the controls, the Air Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane became the first aircraft to fly faster than sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Last week "Chuck" Yeager, piloting a B-29 with the little X-1 attached to its underside, landed in Washington. The X-1 was being turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, to be added to its collection of more than 100 historic planes.* Not much sentiment was wasted on the occasion: the X-1 was already obsolete...
...Test in Steelville. The more he saw of children in big hospitals, the more Dr. Zahorsky became convinced that they didn't belong there. "When the young child is sick," he said, "it is happiest and shows the strongest resistance when under parental care and in its home. The practice of tearing the sick child from its mother's arms and taking it to a hospital is not good pediatrics...
Three years ago Dr. Zahorsky made up his mind to retire, go back to Steelville and test his theories by taking care of child patients for aged (eightyish) Dr. Rainey Parker, Steelville's only general practitioner. The results were even better than he had hoped for: of 300 cases, 296 got well without going to a hospital; two of the polio victims had to be hospitalized; two children (one with leukemia, one with congenital heart disease) died despite being hospitalized...
...Lazy Way. But Dr. Zahorsky wanted to test his theories on the entire population of Crawford County (pop. 12,693). He saw his chance this month when Dr. John Charles Doubek, 26, arrived to help Dr. Parker in general practice. Dr. Doubek was one of Dr. Zahorsky's former students, trained the way the old master thinks a young country doctor should be trained...
...last week with hundreds of bales of an odd-looking crop: a thin cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...