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...long journeys may drive astronauts dotty, Whirlpool last week was busy testing a space kitchen designed to serve Swiss steak, baked ham, filet of sole, cakes, cookies and other goodies out of gleaming bins and refrigerators. There will be three electric ovens; from nozzles hot and cold water will spurt into collapsible tubes containing dehydrated coffee or fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract, the Space Kitchen weighs 818 lbs., of which only 236 lbs. is food. But as of now, there is no rocket...
...Psychiatric Association in Chicago, held separately from the psychoanalysts', 2,000 psychiatrists last week heard that since New York began intensive drug treatment with ataractics in 1956. the number of patients in its state mental hospitals has dropped by more than 4,000 (despite a 500,000 population spurt). Admissions, including readmissions, are up 5,000 a year, but discharges are up by 8,000. Dr. Henry Brill predicted that New York's mental-hospital population would drop another 5,000, perhaps even 15,000, by 1970-which only six years ago would have been regarded...
...about $2 billion, providing a solid lift for the economy. But that turnaround would not be as great as in 1958, when the inventory rate swung from minus $7 billion in the first quarter to plus $3 billion in the fourth. Nor do economists look for any strong spurt in housing starts, which have helped pave the way for all previous postwar recoveries...
...next month or two is still the auto industry. "If autos don't do it in March and April." says Louis Paradiso. chief statistician of the Commerce Department, "then April won't be the turning point they are all talking about." Despite a hefty sales spurt in late February, production cutbacks and heavy layoffs are still hitting Detroit hard...
Toepfer attributed the sudden spurt in applications to the additional pubilicity given the University by President Kennedy. Since May 1 marks the closing date for applications, Toepfer took a "wait and see" attitude...