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...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...developed by Dairy Expert Roy R. Graves, 64, who spent 28 years in the Department of Agriculture, and John Stambaugh, a Chicago businessman and gentleman farmer. On Stambaugh's Wood-Jon farm in Valparaiso, Ind., Graves made a machine that pumps milk straight from the cow into a stainless steel vacuum tank without letting the milk come in contact with the bacteria-laden...
...simple early morning ceremony on the lawn of Harkness Common, 400 entranced nature lovers paid homage to Richard Lippold's stainless steel monument. They sand and recited poetry and made speeches...
They read telegrams from Luther Burbank, General Douglas MacArthur (U.S. Army ret.), ("World Trees never die...") Lippold ("... busy installing plumbing in lounge of Radio City Music Hall...") and Lassie ("Sorry I can't be there to see if stainless steel is really stainless...
...hymns were sombre: "Hail World Tree, so beautiful. All hail, all hail, incomprehensible," or "Hail World Tree, we humbly kneel beneath thy boughs of stainless steel...