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...special chimp chow the chimponauts are given medical examinations and driven in a panel truck to the testing center of the laboratory's Comparative Psychology Branch. There they are taught to wear carefully fitted space suits and to tolerate being strapped for long periods on softly padded contour couches. They are taken up in stunting aircraft to get accustomed to sudden noise, vibration and G forces, and to learn what weightlessness feels like. Even before they have been hardened to all these physiological "insults," their psychological training has begun...
Canal & Tunnels. Last week, after a month-long site study (using some of Rommel's leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water...
...Russia's royal color. Catherine the Great was married in a sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating...
Last week in Berkeley's Cowell Memorial Hospital, surgeons operated on Halfback Bates, repairing the right side of his face, described by a staff doctor as "crushed in, distorted, flattened, and twisted by the fractured parts that hold the face in contour." Among the multiple fractures, the plate of bone that holds the upper teeth was cracked and "the right sinus was fractured extensively...
...matter how many times one has heard or played the Beethoven, the work never ceases to amaze one with its riches. Masterful in structure, significant in material, it is full of an almost endless succession of felicitous surprises--original shifts of harmony, changes in melodic contour, dynamics, and texture--which somehow always manage to retain their initial freshness...