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Hypos & Photos. The current Missouri flurry got its impetus two football seasons ago, when eight Kansas City high-school students piled into two jalopies and roared off to see a game in Oklahoma City. Local teen-agers showed them how to extract the amphetamine from a Valo inhaler and inject it with a hypodermic needle. (Oldfashioned ways of getting the kick by chewing the cartridge or drinking beer in which it had been swished around were no longer popular, because Pfeiffer had added a bitter, nauseating chemical.) The venturesome eight had a ball -and spread the craze back home...
...more than a day the Atlas stayed too far from the U.S. for further experiments. Then it passed near a tracking station in California, which first tried to extract from it a second broadcast of Eisenhower's voice. The satellite tried to comply, but reception was poor. The station then radioed a signal that told the satellite to record a fresh message. The satellite obeyed, making a tape of a Teletype version of President Eisenhower's message. As it swept eastward at 17,000 m.p.h., a station in Texas gave it the playback signal. Down from space came...
...elevation, Morococha has an average atmospheric pressure (446 mm. of mercury) slightly more than half that at sea level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...
Nonfat Fryer. For people on a low-fat or low-calorie diet, Chicago's Pam Products put on the market a nonfat soybean extract that can be sprayed into the frying pan from an Aerosol container, used to fry meat, fish, potatoes, etc., without any shortening. The extract will permit people on a diet to eat more; an egg, which contains 70 calories, usually picks up another 55 when fried in shortening. Price...
...first solution considered was that of the modern Hindu mystics, represented by the Indian philosopher Radhakrishnan, who seeks to reduce all religious concepts to a common denominator of mystical truth. But in retracting his mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...