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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submariners are among the happiest military men alive. Last week Navy captain Harry J. Alvis told the American College of Physicians meeting in Chicago that the rate of submarine mental breakdowns "is much lower than among the rest of the military population." As chief of the Navy's submarine doctors, Captain Alvis had one answer known to any man who ever underwent pigboat training: all submariners are volunteers, and not every volunteer becomes a submariner. So scrupulous is the selection process that less than 1% leave the service after winning coveted dolphins. As a result, submariners are unusually bright...
...Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing the lower parts of four faces, done in tinted plaster...
...bachelor and onetime commercial artist, Johns works in a neat, spacious loft over a sandwich shop in lower Manhattan, explains his own work more lucidly than the critics have. "It all began," he says, "with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets-things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface...
...night poring over it. The cosmic-ray count seemed reasonable as long as the bird was at low altitude. When it climbed upward, the rate increased rapidly. Then, for some unaccountable reason, the count fell to nothing, stayed at nothing until the bird was back at lower altitude again...
...Slot. Van Allen still knew only the lower parts of the overhead radiation. He yearned to go higher still. He began negotiating to get his instruments into the projected moon probes. When in the fall of 1958 Pioneer I rose to 71,000 miles and fell back, Van Allen had his instruments aboard. But for once, they did not work well. Pioneer II flopped, but in December Pioneer III carried his instruments up to 63,000 miles, broadcasting...