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...every 100 women who become pregnant, the statistics show, some 85 will give birth to live babies after about nine months, and five will bear premature babies, of which four will live. But in the remaining one-tenth of all pregnancies, the women will lose their children by involuntary abortion before they are mature enough to survive independently. Why? And what can be done about it? In Spontaneous and Habitual Abortion,* published this week (Blakiston; $11). Dr. Carl Theodore Javert. a busy, unorthodox
Bubbly Aluminum. The first practical "foamed" aluminum for extra-light weight has been produced under U.S. Air Force contract by Bjorksten Research Laboratories at Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...
...this case the satellite was a Civil Air Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
...bigger problem is cash. To take advantage of the tremendous opportunities that the fairs present, the Commerce Department needs $5,000,000, only one-tenth the amount that the Soviet bloc spends every year on trade fairs in the free world alone, and a small cost for the enormous good will that the U.S. can win at the fairs...
...like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...