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Everything about the gondola had been carefully designed to cushion the harsh conditions on the edge of space. The upper atmosphere is bitter cold, but the air is so thin that it has little chilling effect. The controlling influence is sunlight, much stronger than on the surface. To ward it away, the gondola was insulated with four layers of honeycomb paper and plastic, and an air-conditioning system was capable of keeping the inside temperature down to a comfortable...
...shape in the late '40s. The first Bomarc was flown in 1952, has since been perfected in dozens of tests against high-flying drones; the Air Force now calls its accuracy "superior." With B-52 production slowed down, at least temporarily, the new Bomarc should give Boeing a cushion against the trend to more missiles and fewer manned planes in the U.S. defense budget. Said Boeing President William McPherson Allen: "From now on, Bomarc will increasingly become one of our major concerns...
...above the earth, where air molecules wander around as individual particles, not as a gas. Wearing a space suit, a scientist eventually will enter the vacuum and experiment with such puzzling problems as the behavior of lubricants in space, and the reaction of a model satellite, minus a protective cushion of air, to sunlight. X rays and ultraviolet rays beamed in through portholes in the chamber...
...History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying a yellow hatbox, jumped out of the waiting car and got into Eden's car. As the door closed, Clarissa Eden opened the hatbox, took out a small cushion and tucked it behind her husband's head. From a following car, newsmen could see Eden's head roll tiredly from side to side on the cushion as the car roared at 60 miles an hour toward Chequers, carrying into retirement and the long shadows of history...
After a tight first quarter, the JV constructed a 41-19 cushion against which Coach Eddie Krinsky substituted freely. High scorers for the Crimson were guard Bob Repetto, forward Jim Smith, and center Chuck Wolle, with 13, 12, and 10 points respectively...