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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...
...CHINA AIR ROUTES for U.S. airlines will be urged by Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, Senate Commerce Committee chairman, who proposes that resumption of U.S. passenger and mail flights would be good first step toward opening trade with Chinese Communists. Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines hold certificates to fly to China, but cannot do so until State Department drops travel...
Years Beyond. For the earthmovers-and the men who make and operate them -the federal program will be only the first giant step in meeting the long-range needs of the nation. By the time the federal program is finished in 1972 (or a few years later, should Congress decide to stretch it out), most of the U.S. roads now in use will be obsolete and in need of rebuilding. Last year 80,000 miles of federal highways alone became obsolete, and thousands of miles of asphalt road built in the '20s are due to outlive their usefulness...
...Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward such a plan, voted to create an air modernization board (TIME, May 27) that will lay the groundwork for a joint air control system for military and civil planes...
Heart & Artery Disease. Deaths attributed to disease of the coronary arteries went up step-fashion according to the amount smoked: less than half a pack a day, up 29%; half a pack to a pack, up 89%; one to two packs, up 115%; two packs or more, up 141%. (Pipe smokers' rates were up only 3%; cigar smokers' rates up 28%.) Cigarette smokers' death rate from strokes was 30% higher than among nonsmokers; from general arteriosclerosis, 46% higher...