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...specific. Though Krock never mentions Reston by name in his critiques, there can be no doubt of his target. Items: ¶ Last week Reston cited in glowing terms the "serious and thoughtful" commencement address of Yale President Whitney Griswold, who said that "we have had enough of the pious cant that says the Sputniks were a good thing because they will wake us up. This is worse than making a virtue of necessity. It is making a virtue of disaster." Next...
...Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language: "She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"; "The Skin You Love to Touch"; "Which Twin Has the Toni...
WHEN Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant made a tour of Air Force bases for his story on space medicine (TIME, May 26), he grew fascinated with weightlessness, the uncanny state in which man must learn to live as he hurtles through outer space. Within the earth's atmosphere, it can be produced for brief intervals in a jet plane. To experience it, Cant took a 3½-hour pre-jet-flight physical, sat through four hours of indoctrination, spent an hour in the altitude chamber breathing oxygen under pressure, finally tried out an ejection seat (it hurled...
...moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn at firsthand how it is done and what it feels like, TIME's Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went weightless in one of the Air Force's fast jet fighters. His account...
...intensive, long-range campaign he serves: to solve the problems of man's survival in outer space. Six months ago, TIME tackled the job of picturing the efforts of U.S. space medics in color, found that there was more to picture than had been imagined. Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went on a flying tour of U.S. Air Force space medicine centers, and for his preview of what man faces when he reaches for the stars, see MEDICINE, Outward Bound...