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...paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water gathered about both ends of the bottle "and the air collected in the middle in a little sphere. It stayed that way even when I shook the bottle...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan, who has just about exhausted all the known talent in his sphere, turns to some unknowns with the first of a series of shows introducing young performers who have never appeared on TV before...
Aiken described the study of meaning in every sphere of human activity as "the great question of twentieth century philosophy and culture." "Man is the animal that learns," he added, "and his works are modes of meaning." At the same time, he warned that the analysis of meaning should not be restricted to linguistic analysis alone: man's talk is only one of the aspects...
...through space together, the balloon appearing to grow smaller as it forged ahead. As the pair of space travelers passed their apogee (922 miles) and fell faster and faster toward the earth, the balloon appeared to shrink to a bright speck. Tracked by the following camera, the big silver sphere hit the fringes of the atmosphere and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The show ended a few moments later when the rocket and TV camera also burned...
...protons' reluctance to turn, explains Republic's Physicist Stanley M. Forman, is the secret of the new magnetic-induction gyroscope. Electric current passing through two coils of wire creates a magnetic field that makes protons in a small, water-filled sphere (sometimes a pingpong ball) line up in one direction. When the coils are turned, their magnetic field turns with them; the protons resist, and in their struggle they generate a faint electric current that can be picked up by a second pair of coils...