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More important, say Convair's experts, is the possibility that raindrops can puncture a jet's fuselage or cockpit blister, causing the pressurized cabin to explode at high altitudes. At 1,520 m.p.h. (Mach 2), a raindrop smashes into a plane with a force of 70,000 Ibs. per sq. in. At higher speeds, raindrops may be as deadly as enemy bullets...
...camera as a versatile, unsleeping third eye for man is more widespread than most televiewers, busy ogling Lucy and Groucho, are aware. In Houston's city jail, eight electronic cameras scan the corridors and cells. In the Redlands, Calif, jail, two cameras mounted in a bulletproof blister overlook the exercise yard, another, perched in the wall opposite the cell tier, swings from side to side like a metronome, staring balefully at the men in their bunks. Television eyes peer down at customers and clerks in the Alpha Beta grocery in Pasadena, Calif., watching for shoplifters...
Back in Washington (without a single blister). Bookman decided that this particular assignment had been one of the most pleasant interludes in his reporting career. Said he: "Sitting around a campfire spooning beef stew from a bubbling cauldron and singing songs in the firelight was one of the best soul-restorers an economics reporter could possibly find...
...fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot. They covered 22 long miles before they sat down before the club's roaring fireplace for a dinner of roast ham and baked beans...
...wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party chanting the names of Hindu deities and the drums rolling, there would be occasional noises in the underbrush. But some how the only thing that worried me was a blister on my heel. I guess I'm getting blase - or just...