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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more. The g-meter needle crept up past 2 to 3 and on to 4. My normal 145 lbs. now weighed 580: I felt compressed, depressed. Even the light rubber ball of the pneumatic release for my camera shutter, held in my hand, seemed unbearably heavy. With the eyeballs tugged downward, with eyelids feeling like rusty iron curtains, it was an intense effort to peek "up" to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: HOW TO GO WEIGHTLESS | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...only ''what is clearly in their own interest." He called for "vigor and imagination in forging ahead with new and improved product developments and in product and market research." He asked business to show faith, not fear, in the U.S. economy by keeping inventories up to normal standards, by investing in needed plants and equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Nominations for Oblivion | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Researcher Pavlovic has developed such skill that out of a recent series of 100 grafted embryos 30 did not die until their last day of incubation, and six hatched into living chicks. One of these lived 55 days, another 70 days. They grew more slowly than normal chicks and appear to have died because their composite brains did not properly control their digestive apparatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Composite Chicks | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Their composite heads and brains seemed normal. The host chicks were Rhode Island Reds but the grafted tissue came from a black breed and it showed its origin by the growth of black feathers on the top of the head. The upper beak, eyes, ears, forebrain and half of the midbrain were grafted too, but the chicks could see and hear well and seemed to be normally alert. The one that lived 70 days learned to respond to a whistle, which many birds never learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Composite Chicks | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Quite normal, I'm sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Special Appointment | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

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