Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds were true zero gravity. As closely as Brett and I could figure, we had floated virtually weightless for seven minutes and in true zero gravity for five. From our two-man, 2½-hour survey, we could obviously not make even tentative assumptions about possibly grave long-term effects (over days, weeks or months) of weightlessness on the human circulatory and respiratory systems. But these suggestions emerged: a weightless man in space need not be witless if he has had time to recover from the probable dulling effect of massive g forces during blastoff; his reasoning powers should...
When the nose cone hit the atmosphere after its arch through space, its tip got so hot that it glowed like a star. It was, in effect, a man-made meteor that gradually lost speed by air friction. When its speed was low enough (figure secret) to eliminate further heating, a lot of things started happening fast...
...carrying Sputnik II, says Sedov, proved that an animal can stand the shock of launching and that weightlessness has almost no effect on it. This is only the beginning. Before manned space flight is realized, more Sputniks with animals on board will have to be launched. Return to earth is necessary for a manned space craft, and this problem, too, has not been solved. "My opinion," he says cautiously, "is that in the next 20 years we may ship men out to the neighbor planets...
...every company that slims down its operation, another discovers new ways of doing things that should have been in effect for years but were overlooked during the boom. San Francisco paint manufacturer W. P. Fuller & Co. has its first full-scale marketing division, which means, says one executive wryly, that "we now have sales planning instead of just 'Hip, Hip, Hooray, let's get out and sell...
...Americans in Dublin unanimously cringe," said Ambassador Scott McLeod, "at the effect which American movies appear to create on the local population." Reading on through a poll (reported in Variety) of U.S. embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied...