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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozens of military and civilian laboratories across the U.S., researchers are working under pressure to perfect ways of keeping a human being alive and functioning efficiently when he soars into the void of space (TIME, May 26). None of their problems is as will-o'-the-wispy as weightlessness, the gravity-free state that will envelop man when he orbits around the earth or reaches for the moon and planets. Reason: in the earth's atmosphere and gravity belt, this unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn...
There was, as a matter of fact, just this much more: Indiana's young (29), clean-jawed Pat O'Connor rode right up the stern of another racer, could not keep his Sumar Special from flipping over. No stranger to the Brickyard, Irish Pat O'Connor had racked up some 2,000 miles there in four other 500s. But experience could not save him. He suffered a fractured skull, died in flaming wreckage. The first lap was not yet finished and the 42nd Indy 500 had scored the race's 48th fatality. Elisian, whose harebrained driving...
...Austin-Healey's Sprite. Price in Manhattan: $1,849, the cheapest British sports car (next cheapest: MG, at $2,526). Powered by a souped-up 48-h.p. version of Austin's four-cylinder A35 engine, the two-passenger Sprite does 35 miles on a gallon, accelerates from o to 70 m.p.h. in 34 seconds, a whisker slower than the MG, has a top speed of more than 80 m.p.h...
...modest. Hungry Americans are well acquainted with the company's pantry of 235 branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
...Wall Street brokerage firm carrying his name), the company from 1925 to 1929 picked up many of the best-known U.S. food processors. Among them: Baker's chocolate, founded in 1765, which Postum got for $9,000,000 in stock; Maxwell House (for $46 million); Jell-O ($44 million); Birds Eye ($22 million); Swans Down ($7.4 million); also Minute Tapioca, Log Cabin syrup, Calumet Baking Powder. Hutton and Chester renamed this big shopping bag General Foods...