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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets away, in thorough Thoreau-going fashion he goes very nearly to population's brink. He and his wife Janet pack a single bag, fly to Watertown, N.Y., board a twin-engined amphibious plane near Lake Ontario, and fly out to their own private Duck Island (3 sq. mi.) and their primitive three-room log cabin-bare of telephone, electricity, running water and plumbing. Foster Dulles cherishes his island privacy, but on the urging of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Bureau Chief Robert John Donovan, he agreed to take along a reporter on his last trip...
Polka Dots & Pioneers. Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing...
Atmosphere. The space capsule, like the pressure suit within it. will be pressurized at about 7½ Ibs. per sq. in. -the pressure normally found at 18,000 ft. Instead of ordinary air (21% oxygen), it will be filled with an artificial atmosphere containing at least 40% oxygen, to give the spaceman the same quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will...
...large, lonesome Nevada last week the winter snows that gave the state its name† began melting on the mountain flanks. Below the snowline, 110,000 sq. mi. of the nation's sixth biggest state came alive with spring activity. Along the Sierra Nevada, Basque sheepherders led freshly shorn flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude...
Last week a group of Japanese oilmen won a 2.890-sq.-mi. concession in the Persian Gulf off the neutral zone by contracting to pay 56% of the production profits to the zone's owners, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The deal came just a few days after Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) became the first major U.S. company to upset the fifty-fifty pattern. For a 6,177-sq.-mi. concession off Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million...