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...roomy nose cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
Telemetered Symptoms. As the Jupiter with its living cargo soared off, its transmitters radioed back a sheaf of telemetered information. Fourteen electronic channels reported the symptoms of Monkey Able, including her muscular reactions, heart sounds, temperature and respiration. There were only two failures: her electrocardiograph failed to work; at the last minute, the button that she was supposed to push had been disconnected before launch because the scientists found that it interfered electrically with other apparatus...
This was no isolated phenomenon. "Cargo cults" ("cargo" is pidgin English for trade goods) have been observed repeatedly in the islands of Melanesia (including New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides). All of them share the belief that black men will acquire the white man's magic to materialize goods from overseas without doing a lick of work. British Sociologist Peter M. Worsley writes of the cargo cults in the May issue of the Scientific American, and lists and locates 72 of them...
Central belief of the cargo cults is that the world is about to come to a cataclysmic end, after which God, ancestors, or some future hero will appear and establish a new order of things. In World War II, both sides benefited from this. G.I.s landing in the New Hebrides before taking Guadalcanal found the natives preparing airfields, roads and docks for the cargoes they thought were coming on magic ships and planes from the King of America, the potent Ruseful (Roosevelt). The Japanese were received by the Papuans of Dutch New Guinea with joy as harbingers...
...Stewardesses. For fiscal 1959, MATS was directed by Congress to spend a minimum of $80 million on contracts to commercial carriers but actually spent only $69 million, 11% of its total budget. Hardest hit by MATS' competitive policy are the small all-cargo airlines, who depend on Government business, are part of the emergency air reserve counted on by the Government for war. Says William Gelfand, contract administrator for the Flying Tiger Line: "We don't say it is MATS' responsibility to keep any of us in business. But if the military is going to compete with...