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...thousands of research groups in the United States, about 600 qualify as think tanks. Approximately 75 of these are attached to the Federal government by annual contract. Created mostly by the executive branch, they include RAND and NASA's Bellcomm Inc. The Stanford Research Institute and the Hudson Institute are two of 200 leading independent or university-affiliated nonprofit institutions devoted broadly to the natural and social sciences. About 300 profit-making firms consult, study, conduct surveys, make recommendations, perform applied research and, generally think for a fee. These teams of "brains" include General Electric's TEMPO group and Arthur...
...Cayley Plains or throwing up rooster tails of moon dust as he puts it through a series of skidding, Le Mans-type racing turns. "It's simply a superb vehicle," said the high-spirited Duke after his return to Houston. The vehicle's designers could only agree. NASA engineers announced that they were delighted with the moon buggy and said that they planned no changes in it for December's Apollo 17 mission...
...NASA medical men were equally impressed with the functioning of the astronauts. Suspecting that potassium loss may have been responsible for abnormal heart rates in two of Apollo 15's crew members, NASA Director of Life Sciences Dr. Charles Berry had placed the Apollo 16 astronauts on a diet rich in the essen-salt before and during their mission (TIME, May 1). The precaution appears to have paid off. None of the astronauts experienced more than minimal and predictable heart irregularities. Furthermore, postflight examinations revealed that their potassium levels were normal and that no other physical problems had arisen...
...most of what the astronauts and their cameras saw were fragments called breccias, which are forged together from still more ancient rocks. At the very least, that unexpected finding means that the Cayley Plains were formed, not simply by volcanic flows, but by far more complex geological processes. Said NASA Geochemist Robin Brett: "We went to the right place for the wrong reasons...
...NASA's director of life sciences, Dr. Charles Berry, is unable to explain why the potassium-loss problem, which had not bothered members of earlier missions, surfaced during the last Apollo flight. But the astronauts' physician was determined not to let it become a hazard for Apollo 16. In addition to replenishing the crew's lost potassium through diet, Berry has safeguarded the spacemen by setting up an emergency cardiology service to monitor their heartbeats and transmit their electrocardiograms by telephone to two heart specialists. He has also supplied the astronauts with drugs to be used...