Word: airsick
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...ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...
...itself, none of these inconveniences makes a normal passenger airsick-but it helps. The chief cause of airsickness is the plane's up-&-down motion in bumpy air (not its rolling or yawing). A large-scale Army study during the war indicated that at least a fourth of all passengers are susceptible to airsickness. Most of them become more or less immune once they get used to flying, and airlines would do well to help them become immune by making it harder to get sick. An estimated one-tenth, whom Dr. McFarland classifies as "usually neurotic or emotionally predisposed...
...kept in step for future soldiering. West Point's former footballers have set a good example: of 513 wearers of the "A," no less than 88 have risen to the rank of brigadier general or higher.* Davis and Blanchard have their military sights set. The Speedster, who got airsick on a recent trip home, is air-force-minded. The Blockbuster thinks he will specialize, appropriately, in artillery...
...TIME [July 7]: "Says the latest Journal of Aviation Medicine: People who get airsick may be able to avoid it by taking in advance a small dose of the drug hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, the so-called 'truth' drug often used as a sedative. In a Navy test of cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal...
...People who get airsick may be able to avoid it by taking in advance a small dose of the drug hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, the so-called "truth" drug, often used as a sedative. In a Navy test of cadets so dosed, only ½ of 1% got sick even in bumpy air (normal: 7½%). ¶Eating foods with lots of carbohydrates improves resistance to "blackouts" caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Reason: it reduces the body's oxygen requirements. Moral: high flyers should stoke up on bread and potatoes rather than ham & eggs...