Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocky Robes. If Sukarno is ailing, he is certainly in no worse shape than his country. Food prices continue to soar. An egg that cost 2 rupiahs in Djakarta in 1961 now costs 170 rupiahs. In the past four months, prices have risen 50%. Sukarno is still grabbing for instant cures. When he was in North Korea recently, he was told that the Communists were making cloth from stones, and he has ordered his own experts to turn Indonesian rocks into textiles...
...computer-controlled centrifuge will soon be available to determine how crews and their systems stand up under the G forces of rapid acceleration. The world's largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
...farmer reflected a curious detachment in the Dominican Republic four months after the abortive revolution. To the people of the country's farms and villages, Santo Domingo might as well be on Mars. What concerned them most was the sorry shape of the sugar, cocoa and coffee markets, the absence of rain, the shortage of food, the need to get pencils and books for the kids returning to school-in short, the same things that concerned them before Santo Domingo erupted...
...Starving. In the past 20 years, Cureton has seen and tested no fewer than 20,000 middle-aged men and women, found most in poor physical shape. "Those who scored higher in tests of strength and endurance," says he, "showed a better balance of blood distribution and superior blood flow." From protruding abdomens to breathlessness after slight exertion-unless a physician's careful exam rules it out-Cureton's antidote is exercise...
...force blood inward to inner organs) and country hikes (on mountains, if possible, since mountain climbing burns up 600 calories an hour). Diets? Though he warns strongly against sugars, starches and fats for their high caloric intake, he also argues that "you can't put your body in shape by starving...