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...Referring to a "one-eyed, one-horned . . . pigeontoed, underclothed" visitor from outer space, celebrated in a current rock 'n' roll hit. Asked his line, he replies: "Eatin' purple people, and it sure is fine...
WHEN Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant made a tour of Air Force bases for his story on space medicine (TIME, May 26), he grew fascinated with weightlessness, the uncanny state in which man must learn to live as he hurtles through outer space. Within the earth's atmosphere, it can be produced for brief intervals in a jet plane. To experience it, Cant took a 3½-hour pre-jet-flight physical, sat through four hours of indoctrination, spent an hour in the altitude chamber breathing oxygen under pressure, finally tried out an ejection seat (it hurled...
...this was no imaginary corner of outer space. For a typical underwater interlude in the shooting of Sea Hunt, one of the world's most widely syndicated TV dramas, Tors & Co. were in the depths of a huge kelp bed off Santa Catalina Island. The film they were making is being seen over 167 U.S. TV stations, and broadcasted in 20 other countries in eight languages. Though distributed on film (by Ziv Television Programs, Inc.) rather than on a network. Sea Hunt is among the ten top-rated U.S. syndicated shows...
...finding his way around outer space, German-born Missileman Willy Ley got out of orbit on the New Jersey seaside. Invited to address a dental society meeting in Atlantic City, Scientist Ley arrived four hours late, explained that he had circled for an hour in Asbury Park (65 miles away) before being set on course...
...waters the colors are overwhelming, like a gaudy festival." Swanson has discovered that underwater one can work over, around and sometimes under the subject matter. "The problems,'' he likes to muse, ''may be comparable to those man will have when he begins to draw in outer space...