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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroic, traditional act of bailing out with a parachute is getting less and less popular as airplanes fly faster and higher. Pilots have landed alive (though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
...after intercourse, the instruments diligently recorded the heart and breathing rates, made electrocardiograms of each person. The scientists' findings, not altogether surprising: ¶ In both man and woman the normal heart rate of 70 per minute soars to 170 a minute. The rate is apt to be higher in the man. The physical activity alone is not enough to account for this high acceleration of heartbeat; emotion does the rest. ¶ The breathing rate, normally 15 to 18 a minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain...
...ideas about his assignment. Now in its tenth year, the National War College at Ford Lesley McNair in southwest Washington, D.C. has trained 997 promising officers and civilian officials. Though little known outside of Government circles, NWC is in its own way one of the most vital schools of higher learning...
...reason for the increase in habeas corpus cases, Schaefer said, can be found in new prison practices and in the higher degree of literacy of prison inmates. "There were almost no habeas corpus petitions from Illinois prisons until it was revealed that they were being bottled up by a system of prison censorship," Schaefer said, "but now more than 3,000 legal documents a year come from the Illinois state prison...
...support a large military encampment. Unfortunately, many Icelanders now feel that the base is causing them more discomfort than they bargained for. Troops and foreign construction workers occasionally become involved in incidents with the populace. Furthermore, the base hires thousands of native Icelanders, to whom it pays wages far higher than they could otherwise receive. This incentive draws workers away from native industries, especially fishing. The relatively exhorbitant wages contribute significantly to Iceland's serious inflation problem...