Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blacks out above 20,000 ft., suffers from expanding intestinal gas around 25,000, feels intolerable heart strain even with a high-pressure oxygen mask at 50,000, dies instantly from boiling blood (bubbling off gas like soda water) at 63,000 ft. if not pressurized inside a space suit...
...week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket to the edge of space...
...cannot wait for all the returns to come in are answering the question with cautious optimism. In December, New York's First National City Bank, the nation's third largest, established its second branch south of the Sahara, in Johannesburg. The huge Chase Manhattan Bank has followed suit. Vice Chairman David Rockefeller, 43, just back from a five-week African tour, expects to open up other branches in South Africa. "After that, we will be thinking about moving into the Rhodesias," he said, last week...
...balding man in crepe-soled shoes and a dark blue suit strolled quietly into the blockhouse opposite Pad No. 5 at Cape Canaveral, where Juno II stood tall and white with the gold-plated cone-Pioneer IV-hidden in its nose. Carrying his 72-page countdown book, he ambled around the blockhouse. The countdown had begun at 12:06 p.m. and was going well. He looked up at the rocket. "Very dignified," he observed approvingly. Later, as is his custom, he patted it affectionately before taking his position behind the three sheets of thick tempered glass that protect blast...
Lieberson often personally supervises the making of records, listens to every Columbia release. Elegantly dressed, usually in a grey suit and a custom-made tie, he gets equally enthusiastic over such diverse works as The Chick, a raucous new recording that spoofs rock 'n' roll and pop records, and Ages of Man, Sir John Gielgud's new readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade...