Word: belt
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Foreign critics screamed that the U.S. high-altitude nuclear test of July 9 would destroy the natural radiation belt that girdles the earth. An impressive group of U.S. scientists including Professor James Van Allen, who discovered the belt, brushed aside such fears. The nuclear explosion, they predicted, would have little effect on the natural radiation belt, and any additional radiation that it might cause in space near the earth would dissipate in a few days. Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a sheepish joint report that proved both...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting Injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning, and by the end of a year it will be almost undetectable...
...Manhattan businessman whose wife and mistress are both contented girls, opens next month in Phoenix and will skip around among cities in the middle, mountain and far western states before opening on Broadway Oct. 24. All sorts of shows will be pussyfooting through the recently discovered Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto belt. Oliver!, English Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist, has already begun its U.S. tryout in Los Angeles; it opens in Manhattan Dec. 27. Of course, this way-out-of-townsmanship can be carried to extremes. Something called Foxy, getting ready for Broadway, recently opened...
...motorists who have been worried that the belt itself might cause injury, there was reassurance from both California and a Cornell University study: in only a fraction of 1% of accidents did belts cause injury, and even when they did, there was always the possibility that without them the injuries would have been worse. As for the hazard of being trapped by a belt in a burning or submerged car, the National Safety Council says: "The belt greatly improves your chances of survival. It helps to keep you conscious, so you can get clear of the car." Free to Squirm...
Some manufacturers are already talking of a harness for adults too-an arrangement of shoulder straps similar to those worn by aircraft pilots. Even with only a safety belt, the human body can briefly withstand a force equivalent to 60 times that of gravity...