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...tests are in the offing. Under development is a sled that will speed much faster on a longer track. It will have a windshield, permitting better streamlining. But at the point of highest speed, the shield will be jettisoned. Then wind at 24 Ibs. pressure per sq. in. (3,456 Ibs. per sq. ft.) will strike the occupant's body. The occupant? Colonel Stapp...
Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...
...Brazilian dream is made of more than dream stuff. Brazil is indeed a giant. In population (57 million) it nearly matches all the other nine republics of South America put together. In area (3,287,842 sq. mi.) it is the world's biggest republic, big as the U.S. with a second Texas thrown in. In such big cities as Sao Paulo (see opposite page), the fastest-growing major metropolis, a new breed of Brazilian businessmen is changing the face of the land with a zeal unmatched in all of Latin America...
...Brazilians' nationalistic reluctance to let foreign investors and experts share freely in the development of their natural resources. No. 1 horrible example of nationalism defeating national interest is the legislation excluding foreign capital from oil exploitation. Geologists have estimated that oil-bearing formations underlie more than 750,000 sq. mi. of Brazilian territory, but the government-controlled oil monopoly, Petrobras, lacks the capital and technical skills to undertake large-scale exploration. So far, Brazilians have found two small fields, which between them produce 4,000 bbls. a day-about 2% of consumption. Result: last year Brazil had to spend...
...more married women than married men (due to reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than men (the reverse was true 75 years ago), 50.7 people per sq. mi. (v. 16.9 then), and its population (median age: 30.2, ten years more than in 1879) is 59% urban (v. 72% rural then...