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...Army is field-testing a radio navigational system that enables troops to triangulate their position in unmapped areas. An 8-oz. radio receiver that a G.I. can clip onto his helmet allows him to hear his commanding officer's voice at all times...
...green. No. 6. Driver wearing a blue helmet. Who else? "Clark!" somebody shouted, and suddenly the crowd was chanting: "Clark! Clark! Clark!" Sure enough, just 3 min. 29 sec. after it had left the starting grid, Jim Clark's Lotus-Climax swept around the last left-hand bend into full view of the cheering stands. "C'est formidable!" gasped one awed Frenchman. Sighed another: "C'est termine"-It's all over...
...Desperately rocking his car from side to side to slosh the last few pints of fuel into his starving carburetors, Parnelli Jones limped across the line 6 sec. ahead of Italian-born Rookie Mario Andretti-and almost instantly ran completely out of gas. Climbing out, he took off his helmet and began pushing his car the i mi. back to the pits...
...Mouth. Finally Honeywell settled on the astronaut's mouth. Lip and tongue motions might do the job, but there is not much room in a space helmet, and extra equipment placed there would probably interfere with necessary speech over the radio. And the Honeywell men had a strong hunch that most astronauts would object to apparatus hitched to their lips or tongue...
...better possibility was the astronaut's breath. He might puff gently into sensing devices that would convey his commands to the AMU. But this system would not be accurate, and the extra puffing would waste oxygen and deposit undesirable moisture in the space suit's helmet...