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WHEN Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant made a tour of Air Force bases for his story on space medicine (TIME, May 26), he grew fascinated with weightlessness, the uncanny state in which man must learn to live as he hurtles through outer space. Within the earth's atmosphere, it can be produced for brief intervals in a jet plane. To experience it, Cant took a 3½-hour pre-jet-flight physical, sat through four hours of indoctrination, spent an hour in the altitude chamber breathing oxygen under pressure, finally tried out an ejection seat (it hurled...
Best Friend. Congress was unimpressed. Eisenhower's Interior Secretary Douglas McKay appeared similarly uninterested. It was only after McKay's resignation in 1956 that Alaska's hopes grew again. President Eisenhower appointed Nebraska's Republican ex-Senator Fred Seaton to McKay's job, and Seaton became the best friend Alaska statehood ever had in official Washington...
...different individuals does not yet have the incompatibility that prevents the grafting of adult tissues. He hopes that it will soon be possible to advance from chicks to mammals. Already his laboratory has transplanted parts of the brains of rat embryos to unhatched chicks. Some of them survived and grew for 17 days, but none so far have hatched into live chicks with rats' brains...
Researcher Pavlovic has developed such skill that out of a recent series of 100 grafted embryos 30 did not die until their last day of incubation, and six hatched into living chicks. One of these lived 55 days, another 70 days. They grew more slowly than normal chicks and appear to have died because their composite brains did not properly control their digestive apparatus...
...Damnable Hubbub." Prestige of the Britannica grew with succeeding editions, and the editors easily enlisted the world's famous men as writers. Sir Walter Scott wrote on drama. Harvard President Edward Everett, the first American contributor, wrote a biography of Washington. Lord Rayleigh, the physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904, was commissioned to write on "Light." He missed his deadline, but the encyclopedia was being published volume by volume in alphabetical order, and his piece was rescheduled under "Optics"-and again as "Undulating Theory of Light." It finally got in under "Wave Theory of Light...