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Magazine publishers, who once thought that space was only something to sell, are learning that it also sells magazines. Space Journal is printing 102,000 copies of its current issue-more than quintupling the press run of its first-and may order another 30,000. Publisher Wayne (American Aviation) Parrish's monthly Missiles and Rockets (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) is put out for the trade, but its circulation has grown by almost a third (to 27,700) since the first Sputnik, and its ads are up 75% over last year despite the slump. Though aviation magazines are expanding coverage...
Shortly after Sputnik I went up, a survey of first-and second-year college students in the Mid-west revealed that 10 per cent of them were not aware that Russia had launched a satellite...
...year was 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's first-and un-happiest-in office. At the heart of Ike's troubles were the many Republican Congressmen who, unable to accept responsibility after their long political exile, spent most of their time trying to thwart the Republican Administration. At a Cabinet meeting on May 22, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal...
...disease; among 581 who always added salt without bothering to taste, 61 had it. ¶ Studies at the University of Michigan's Child Health Conference (Well-Baby Clinic) answered a bedeviling question: Is the Salk polio vaccine as effective among infants and pre-school children as among the first-and second-graders on whom it was first tried? Said the researchers, after testing 133 infants and 116 kindergartners on various inoculation schedules: yes. ¶ One of the commonest features of heart disease is congestive heart
...administering the injections privately). Some states, e.g., Illinois and Colorado, have decided to freeze out commercial vac cine for the present, distribute their entire allotment free. Others are increasing their allotment of commercial vaccine. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which provided the free vaccine for first-and second-grade school children in 1955, has stopped distributing vaccine, although some of its vaccine is still being used. The Government's $30 million vaccine grant to the states is available only until Feb. 15, but Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom says he will ask Congress to extend...