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Both Eggers and Ferri point out that their glide or skip missiles are also promising as vehicles for bringing a human crew back alive from a satellite orbit or a trip to the moon. But it is safe to guess that the enormous amount of money and effort already expended on hypervelocity flight would not be made available without a military motive. There is some slim chance of countering a crude ballistic missile that can follow only a predictable course to a single target. But a hypervelocity missile that moves about as fast and can change its course...
...insects easiest to study in this way are mosquitoes, bees, flies, etc. Dr. Hocking puts one of them on the mill and makes it fly until it is exhausted, which means that its nectar tank is empty. Then he refuels it (a tricky business) with a measured amount of nectar and starts it flying again. When it stops he knows how far it has flown on the fuel that he gave it. Modifications of this experiment enable Dr. Hocking to figure the most economical cruising speed of each insect. Mosquitoes fly most efficiently at 2 ½ m.p.h. Bees cruising...
...researchers added about 1/1000 of an ounce of zinc daily to the diet of cirrhosis patients, and noted that liver function improved within two days to four months. In addition, the amount of the metal excreted from the body was reduced...
...class is very slight at this time. The reduction would have to be made from the ranks of the intellectual border-line cases, many of whom are sons of alumni. Not only does refusing alumni sons cause the Committee on Admissions much adverse criticism, but it also decreases the amount of alumni contributions. It is unlikely that the University would take this risk while it is conducting an $82.5 million fund drive...
Moreover, this is not attacking the problem at the right spot. Dr. Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, asserts that "Scientists cannot be made overnight with any amount of money. They must be produced by the American school system...