Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sophisticated Instruments. The orbiting body, including the burned-out rocket, is 80 in. long, 6 in. in diameter, and weighs 30.8 lbs. The satellite proper weighs 18.13 lbs.; of this, its steel outer skin weighs 7.5 lbs., and the rest, nearly 11 lbs., is the payload of instruments. These weights do not compare with Sputnik I (184 lbs. without its rocket) or Sputnik II (1,120 lbs. with dog and rocket), but the Explorer's instruments are so light and sophisticated that they may send as much information from space as their Russian rivals...
...spiraled closer to earth. On Jan. 6 he distinguished eight distinct fragments, all of them still orbiting, but at slightly different speeds. Toward the end, it took as much as 30 minutes for the procession to cross Ohio. Dr. Kraus thinks that the Sputnik's thin metal skin disintegrated first, allowing its contents (batteries, instruments, radio apparatus, etc.) to come apart...
...remains of lush vegetation, and nothing except a few hardy lichens and mosses grows in Antarctica now. One theory is that Antarctica had a tropical climate many millions of years ago. Another is that the earth's thin rocky crust shifted around its plastic core like the loose skin of a puppy, marching a fertile continent with all its plants and animals to frozen death at the Pole...
Dynamics' stock is one of Wall Street's most glamorous, and hardly a week goes by without a spate of reports about another project or merger planned by the company. Last week three mergers were rumored; all were denied by the company. The glamour is more than skin-deep: a share of Dynamics' stock bought for $25 in 1952 is now worth $192 (after splits); the company's profits rose 40% to an estimated $44.8 million last year. In the deadly competition of weapons, brains and power between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, General Dynamics...
...Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them for sale without prescription...