Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the rigid shoulders of a line of Venezuelan soldiers at Maiquetía Airport, streams of spittle arced through humid sunlight, splattered on the neatly pressed grey suit of the Vice President of the U.S. and on the red wool suit of his wife. But worse was in store: less than an hour later Dick and Pat Nixon brushed close to injury and possibly death in violence-torn streets of Caracas, last stop on their eight-nation visit to South America...
While litigious, blonde Bobo Rockefeller was asked to cough up $2,547.92, awarded a Manhattan decorator in a suit over some unpaid bills, her cowpokin' ex-husband Winthrop augmented the family coffers by $171,000. At an auction on his Arkansas farm, attended by some 4,000 cattle lovers, Millionaire Winnie disposed of 39 prize Santa Gertrudis cows and bulls at an average price of $4,380 per head...
Atmosphere. The space capsule, like the pressure suit within it. will be pressurized at about 7½ Ibs. per sq. in. -the pressure normally found at 18,000 ft. Instead of ordinary air (21% oxygen), it will be filled with an artificial atmosphere containing at least 40% oxygen, to give the spaceman the same quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will...
...changes is the g (from gravity), which is equal to the acceleration produced by the earth's pull at sea level. Unprotected and in normal sitting position, the body cannot stand more than about 3½ g for more than about 15 seconds. Semisupine, even without a pressure suit, it can stand 6 g for 4½ minutes, as much as 12 g for only six seconds. But in blast-off or reentry, g forces build up; not only is speed sharply increased or decreased, but the rate of change is itself increased. This poses a worse problem...
...kept going at the rate of more than an opera a year. Verdi hated Milan, hated the power of La Scala's management, hated "the rule of the foreigner and the secret police." But to "keep going." he pruned, cut and distorted "his rugged talent to suit the conditions of the time." With peasant toughness. Verdi awaited the day when he would call the tune as well as write...