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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Jerrie's strange disappearance was explained in Stockholm by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II, chairman of the Special Committee on the Life Sciences for Project Mercury, the U.S. astronaut program. Jerrie Cobb had spent her "vacation" in Albuquerque, N. Mex. undergoing a brutal battery of 75 separate physical and psychological tests. She was jabbed with an electric needle, rocked back and forth on a tilting table to test her circulation. Her sense of balance was measured by squirting cold water into her ear canals to induce dizziness. Psychologists peppered her with 195 questions (sample: "Do you wish...
With financial help from the Guggenheim Foundation, Goddard continued his experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. In 1935 one of his rockets, affectionately dubbed Nell, climbed to 7,500 feet and flew faster than sound. In such experiments over the years, Goddard developed the basics of later rocket technology-gyroscopic stabilizers, fuel pumps, self-cooling motors, landing devices. When diagrams of the Germans' V-2 reached the U.S. in 1944, some scientists observed that the internal structure strikingly paralleled Goddard's old Nell...
...Maben Kluckhohn, 55, anthropologist, authority on Southwestern Indian culture, a director of the Army's massive study of Japan during World War II and from 1947 to 1954 of the West's largest private Russian-research center, at Harvard; of a heart attack; in Sante Fe, N. Mex...
...PRES Grants, N. Mex...
...quiet, warehouselike building at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, N. Mex. are six racks of shelves, each 28 ft. long, 3 ft. wide and 20 ft. high. Each rack has seven shelves; on each shelf are 48 grey metal boxes; and the whole thing looks as passive as a shoe factory's inventory. Actually, it is the first half of the Zeus capacitor, one of the world's most violent bits of equipment...