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...NINTH--STRATO KING has raced well against better...
...sinuous as a salamander, the young woman flexed her junior-miss body, tossed her carefully . tousled strato-cumulus hairdo, and took a long drag on a Kool. "I've done lots of lousy films, but I hoped they would be good," she said. "Now I've done two pictures I know are good, and it's affected my whole life. For the first time I come home after work tired but exhilarated, instead of tired and depressed...
...Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation are the principal sponsors of this sort of space research. For weeks two Navy scientists have been standing by in South Dakota, waiting for a break in the weather to soar aloft in a "Strato-lab" balloon carrying a 16-in. Schmidt telescope. Target of the flight will be Mars, now unusually close to the earth. When Mars is photographed by surface telescopes, the fine detail on its surface is blurred by turbulence in the atmosphere. There should be little or no turbulence above the 16-mile (80,000-ft.) level...
...Robert Ginsburgh, 63, retired Air Force brigadier general turned chief military reporter for U.S. News & World Report; in the crash of a KC-135 Strato-tanker near Massachusetts' Westover Air Force Base (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...measure their heart action, breathing, etc., and report the readings to escort aircraft and ground radios. The primary purpose of the flight was not to make an altitude record but to study conditions on the fringe of space and human reactions to them. The Navy intended to keep its "Strato-lab" (the gondola) at peak altitude for about three hours, a period impossible for rockets or rocket planes...