Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas' Randolph A.F.B. It looked like a home furnace -3 ft. wide, 6 ft. long, 5 ft. high-encrusted with tanks, pipes and electric cables. It was firmly anchored to the concrete floor, but it was the Air Force's closest approximation to the type of cabin in which a man might solo into outer space. Airman Farrell, 23, Manhattan-born son of a Wall Street accountant, was to make a seven-day simulated trip to the moon and back. Though he would not be exposed to three of the major hazards of space flight-acceleration, weightlessness...
Double Oxygen. As soon as the cabin's steel door was dogged down, technicians began lowering the air pressure inside it to 8 Ibs.-just over half an atmosphere, normal for 18,000 ft. At the same time they kept Farrell's oxygen supply normal by raising the oxygen content of the air fed to him through air-conditioning leads until it was double the sea-level proportion. And Farrell...
Leaving the party faithful chuckling behind him (they gave Vice President Nixon a slightly warmer hand), the President boarded the Columbine. In two hours he was in balmy Augusta, Ga., and within 15 minutes after getting to Mamie's Cabin was out on the fairways, to shoot 15 holes before dark in a threesome that included Investment Banker Cliff Roberts and Manhattan Businessman (Cluett, Peabody & Co.) Barry Leithead. Early in the evening while playing bridge, the President was called aside by Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who told him that prospects were improving for a satellite blast-off that night...
Next morning gusts up to 38 m.p.h. and temperatures in the low 405 discouraged much golf. But Ike did play the Augusta National's sheltered 11th-through-14th holes, then returned to the cabin for more bridge. Overnight, the temperature fell to subfreezing. This week, rested but not very much exercised, the President flew back to Washington...
...entertainment of union chiefs and their friends, the local kept a 40-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser, a mountain cabin, a twin-engined Beech airplane; two Local No. 3 officials admitted that they once used the plane to fly to five different cities to cash $2,000 expense checks so it would look as though the money was being spent for campaigning...