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Like flying itself, the ceiling soars and spreads steadily upward until it terminates in one giant span, 130 feet high and more than two football fields in length. Beyond is a gigantic, 12-acre forecourt filled with the newest rockets and aircraft opening directly onto Wright-Patterson's runways. Said one awed spectator, as he looked at the model last week: "It'll never get off the ground." In tribute to the architect, the museum looks as if it could...
...ocean floor. A few shark teeth were found among the bones, suggesting that sharks may have had a few bites of paradoxia's plentiful flesh before a storm or flood covered the body with sand. Then sediment from the sierras covered it deeply, and a mountain range pushed upward between its grave and the ocean. At last big-brained primates, which had not evolved during its lifetime, brought it into the sunlight while searching for the secrets of infinitesimal matter...
...shoulders and ascends to the brain (see diagram). These arteries unite at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery, and in a healthy person they supply up to 20% of the brain's blood. Normally, the blood in the vertebral arteries flows in one direction: upward, to the brain...
...auto strike was scheduled to end this week, but its effects will be felt for months to come. After President Johnson warned that a continuation of the five-week stoppage would "jeopardize the continuous upward thrust of our economy," Walter Reuther finally went into action. He convened the union's General Motors council, won their ratification of the national agreement and scheduled a nationwide membership vote to approve the contract. Local unions that had not yet signed contracts-there were still 33 of them at week's end-could still remain on strike, but Reuther strongly indicated that...
...same time increasing savings and building up personal assets faster than debt. Though consumers are taking on installment debts at the rate of $65 billion this year, the percentage increase is actually less than last year. But consumer credit is expected to take off on an even faster upward spiral next year as more and more new families keep forming and -like true red-blooded Americans-going into debt...