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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head the brewing problem of modern aerial navigation: how to get a fix at great speed while all the usual sun and star angles are constantly changing. Solution: an instrument that records and remembers earth distance and direction traveled from a known starting point. One of the best systems was developed by North American Aviation, Inc. for the Navaho missile. The Navaho was scrapped, but last February the Navy ordered a Navaho guidance system installed in Nautilus. It was aboard the sub nine weeks later-and it seems likely to change marine navigation forever...
From time to time, Mullin will lovingly revive the best-known figure in his sports wonderland: a mournful Dodger Bum, with his tattered coat, scraggly beard, patched pants and woeful cigar. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Mullin briefly spruced up his Bum with a sports shirt and dark glasses-but quickly went back to the stogie. After the Dodgers lost the 1953 World Series to the Yankees, Mullin had his Bum futilely chasing a light-footed brunette in a parody of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn ("Thou still unravish'd bride...
...Soviet student delegations making exchange visits arrive bearing bread-and-butter gifts of good will, depart carrying valises loaded with understanding. Last week a squad of aging Russian students who returned to Moscow after a month in the U.S. showed at a press conference that what they understand best is the cold war. They paid brief respects to the hospitality and friendliness of the Americans, then found fault with almost everything in the country they had visited except its mattresses. Some of their objections...
...Hospitals. Last week the pro-contraception forces prepared for a long and drawn-out battle; the American Jewish Congress and the American Civil Liberties Union called a meeting to set up a citizens' committee and consider preparing a case for testing in the courts. Their position was best summed up by an editorial in the New York Times: "Freedom of religion works both ways; and in this delicate area hospitals must certainly remain neutral, neither imposing birth control therapy, when it is medically indicated, on anyone to whom it is religiously repugnant nor withholding it from those to whom...
...pill that costs 15? looks like your best bet to protect against atomic-bomb radiation," read an A.P. dispatch last week out of Burlington, Vt., citing "top nuclear scientists." The A.P. went on: "You could store it in your medicine cabinet just like aspirin ... If you had 15 minutes' warning of an atomic or H-bomb attack, you could gobble one of the pills." Unfortunately, all this was Utopian wishful thinking...