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Next morning Cooper was back in his Faith 7 capsule. As he lay on his back, the ten-story-high launch assembly swayed gently. The thin skin of the Atlas popped and clinked with expansion and contraction. Vapor whistled with pitch-pipe tones through the liquid oxygen release valve. Gyros purred-and, to the astonishment of control-center monitors, Cooper's respiration rate dropped to twelve per minute. Astronaut Cooper apparently was taking a catnap...
...leopard, the lammergeier vulture-stay clear of its bitter cold (down to -50°F.) and raging gales (up to 150 m.p.h.), and even the Abominable Snowman-whatever he is-confines his ambulations to the Tibetan plateau, 12,000 ft. below. Transported suddenly to its upper ridges, without an oxygen mask, a healthy man would die within hours-of physical deterioration. Tibetans call the mountain Chomolungma, "Mother of the World," and insist that it is the home of the gods. Why the gods would choose to live there, with Elysium at their disposal, is beyond human...
...documentary films in Hollywood, Dyhrenfurth decided to have another go at Everest. He planned his assault with the precision of a man-in-space shot. First, he raised $326,000 (including $100,000 from the National Geographic Society), wheedled U.S. firms into supplying equipment at cut-rate prices: lightweight oxygen tanks, walkie-talkies, 13 tons of freeze-dried food, vitamins, Metrecal wafers. Then Dyhrenfurth picked his team: 20 men, each an experienced part-time mountain climber, each a specialist in his full-time field-a physicist, a psychologist, a philosopher, a geologist, a geographer, physicians, a sociologist. The expedition...
...Sherpas pushed on, through the high valley of the Western Cwm (rhymes with tomb), across the snow-mantled face of Mount Lhotse to the South Col-the 25,850-ft.-high saddle that joins Lhotse to Everest. Goggles shielded their eyes from snow blindness; they learned to sleep with oxygen masks on. Now the going was savage. By last week, when they pitched camp No. 6 at 27,800 ft.-just 228 ft. below Everest's cloud-swathed summit-only four men were climbing...
...back alleys, made fortunes overnight and handed down their small businesses from father to son. Ogden's Luria research department, the industry's first and biggest, is now testing a contraption to reduce a whole auto to egg-sized pellets that could be easily stoked into oxygen converters or other furnaces. In a business long suffering from an inferiority complex, Ablon has been able to attract graduates from such schools as Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T. Once an English teacher at Ohio State, he got his own start in scrap "by marrying the boss's daughter"-a Luria...