Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows? By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles. He cannot smoke because of fire and explosion hazards; the cabin pressure is so low that he cannot even whistle to keep up his courage. Yet he needs courage of a very special kind. As great a menace as any lies in his own mind: a degree of isolation unknown to earth dwellers strains at the bounds of his sanity...
...least 40% oxygen, to give the spaceman the same quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will be filtered, probably through lithium hydride, to remove carbon dioxide and excess water vapor from breath and sweat. It will also be cooled and deodorized...
Isolation. Loneliness is an appalling depressant by itself. For all his Navy training and lofty motivation, a six-month Antarctic night threw Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd into depression. Airman Donald Farrell, after less than a week of far less severe isolation in a ground-bound cabin (TIME. Feb. 24), became not only irritable but hostile. His log for the seventh morning of his week-long simulated flight to the moon bristles with sputtering four-letter obscenities, includes...
...Then we all went down to the Harvard ski cabin and had a big party which lasted all night long. We had half a keg of beer to drink up. We awarded the trophies then, too. We have three trophies--the outhouse trophy, the garbage trophy, and the real good trophy. The first two are roadsigns--one stays in our garbage dump and one over our outhouse. The third is a nice silver cup....But the Outing Club forgot to bring...
...Handy, 84, trumpeter, composer of The St. Louis Blues, music publisher, autobiographer (Father of the Blues), who became a songwriter because the "songs of the South ware pinin' to be written"; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of emancipated slaves. Handy was born in an Alabama log cabin. The Memphis Blues, written in 1909 to abet the first mayoralty campaign of Memphis' Edward H. ("Boss") Crump, started his career in jazz writing. This month, St. Louis Blues, a fictionalized film biography of Handy's life, will be released by Paramount Pictures...