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...mice, left the other normal, and put each in a "compartment in a rotating smooth-walled drum with an irregularity that afforded a possible foothold for each." Cameras recorded the brief critical no-gravity point of the rocket flight: the desensitized mouse clung to his perch, "whereas the normal animal clawed at the air, suggesting disorientation." A subsequent experiment with monkeys "clearly established the fact that the weightless state itself produces no disturbance of circulation in terms of heart rate or arterial and venous blood pressures," says Major Simons. "This does not mean that the circulation might not be involved...
...Parakeet's Perch. His day begins at 5 a.m. in his three-room suite in the Mayflower hotel, where he has lived since 1926, the year after it was built (recalls Mrs. George: "I'd been watching the building go up, and one day I said, 'Mr. George, I don't know where you're going to live, but I'm going to live right there' "). He reads the morning papers, shaves (sometimes with a parakeet named Bobbie perched atop his head eying the lather hungrily), breakfasts on grapefruit and coffee with...
...Sicily altogether. However, an increasing number of thoughtful Italians are beginning to wonder if Mattel's state socialism will bring Italy its promised treasures. No one thinks that Enrico Mattei, who stands in well with Italy's political powers, is about to topple from his perch atop the Italian oil industry. But in Italy's Chamber of Deputies there is increasing talk of reviving a buried draft of a proposed law that would authorize E.N.I, to farm out part of its Po Valley explorations to foreign oil companies with equipment and money to make...
...Navy air base, the goonies love to perch on the wings of aircraft-whether parked, landing or taking off. At times, they make Kamikaze dives at planes and manage to get sucked into propellers. This year, ten planes have been wrecked (no human casualties) by goony-bird action on Midway. With the advent of jet aircraft, the problem has become acute: a goony vacuumed into a forward induction vent could cause a jet to explode...
...year, found a jumble of 350 Gushing molds in the yard of a Chelsea (Mass.) junkman. Last week in New York's Associated American Artists Galleries, 16 new vanes shaped from the old molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they had many touches of humor or pride. One was a soaring steed with flying mane, another a chubby Gabriel blowing a horn...