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Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
...calls of newsboys stepping over people's legs and bodies. But the Esplanade Concerts are not for these; they are for the man who feels like relaxing at that time of the day and year, who enjoys music unpretentiously and informally, without the restrictions imposed by the discipline, the discomfort of the concert hall...
...streets were littered, and the city's health authorities worried about uncollected rubbish. At the London Corporation's burial ground, funerals were postponed or detoured to other cemeteries; the diggers had left only a three-day supply of graves. Few strikes had caused more public inconvenience and discomfort. Londoners found the gates to public lavatories locked; the attendants had joined the strike...
...himself. Painter Paul Cézanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...