Word: lightered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bert Parks's eye, somebody changed the stereotype in Atlantic City's Convention Hall. The diadem of Miss America 1966 went to Kansas' uncorny Deborah Bryant, 19, a brown-haired beauty who would look at home on the fashion pages of Town and Country. Eight pounds lighter (115) and one inch taller (5 ft. 7 in.) than the average pageant winner, Debbie filled the tape with figures that made the judges partial...
...finding that mystified the doctors was the astronauts' significant weight loss. Cooper weighed in for lift-off at 152 Ibs., returned 7½ Ibs. lighter; Conrad started out at 154 Ibs., finished 8½ Ibs. lighter. The astronauts ate only 2,000 calories a day, compared with the 2,700 calories provided for them-but then, neither of them is a heavy eater. Dehydration? Though both astronauts drank six pints of liquid daily-which would seem to preclude the possibility of dehydration-doctors figured that there must be some still unknown factors in space flight that do dehydrate...
They acted stupidly. Why did neither one of them think of using the gasoline or the cigarette lighter from the car to get a fire going? Yet millions of people nowadays, claims Author Cord Christian Troebst (Conquest of the Sea) would have behaved just as ineffectually. In this brisk compendium, Author Troebst recounts a number of harrowing adventure stories and gives some ingenious advice on the art of survival...
...untried in orbit, fuel cells were installed in Gemini 5 because they were smaller and lighter than the conventional batteries used on all previous space flights. Unlike conventional batteries, they can supply electricity for as long as they are fed their fuel−an ideal trait for long-duration power supplies. They produce electricity through the continuous chemical reaction of oxygen and hydrogen, and in the process they form water, a most valuable byproduct...
...that had already been adopted in the U.S. The men could do little to change the clumsy German name for the bra-Büstenhalter-but they did alter the garment itself. Out came deeply plunging bras made of stretchable synthetics with less padding and no old-fashioned bones; lighter, flower-patterned girdles; filmy nylon slips and translucent shortie pajamas. They instantly captivated Germany's willowy, style-conscious girls-to say nothing of their husbands. The synthetic stretch materials, says Braun, "gave us an entirely fresh conception of how to engineer the human form...