Word: contouring
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...human children have been treated with more cautious care. Dressed by a team of tender technicians, the little chimpanzee was togged out in spotless diaper and nylon mesh space suit, then zippered into a fitted contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
...time (7:20 a.m.) approached. The crowds of official and unofficial spectators grew tense with excitement, even though most of them had already witnessed Shepard's successful flight last May; they knew that the odds against success increased with each try. Least excited was Grissom. Strapped to his contour couch, he talked by telephone with his wife in Newport News, Va. He told her that he felt fine...
...special contour chair in a Manhattan courtroom, balding, black-browed Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 60, gasped and covered his face last week as a federal jury-after little more than one hour of deliberation-found him guilty of wartime espionage for the Soviet Union (TIME, June 30). Convicted largely on the testimony of his brother, confessed Red Spy Jack Soble, 58, Psychiatrist Soblen faces a possible death sentence...
...planets. When the first parachute opened, he got an 11-G shock, but did not mind it much. Through the periscope he watched the second parachute open; then, without haste, he made ready for landing. He disconnected his oxygen hose, loosened belts that held his body to the contour couch. The landing in the Atlantic was soft. For a few mo ments the capsule lay on its side with one porthole under water. Slowly it righted itself, and Commander Shepard opened the door to greet the rescue helicopter...
...Touch of the Heart. Zorach is still guided by the shapes of nature-the swirl of a grain, the contour of a stone-but his art is as emotional as it is visual. The Wild Beast has been domesticated, but with such an ever fresh simplicity that he cannot fail to touch the heart. "My children, my wife, the animals I know, the people who enter my life," says he, "things that are deeply a part of me and in which I see a relationship to life through movement and form and inner spirit-these are my material...