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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cookies, Too. Pilgrim believes that on short space jaunts the crewmen will breathe bottled oxygen. For longer voyages, a chemical recycling system that Boeing has developed looks more practical. It uses potassium or sodium super-oxide to generate oxygen and absorb CO2. Only on very long voyages, the sort that are measured in years, will closed systems using algae be the most efficient. On such space ventures, the crew may even be able to eat the excess algae (Pilgrim's daughter Vicki Leigh, 15, has made acceptable cookies of them), eliminating much of the need for toting food...
...enabling them to drop weaker lines. Weaker dealers, too, are on the way out. Car dealers have decreased from 47,000 in 1951 to the present 32,000 -and even dealers themselves think there are still too many. They expect that there will be fewer dealers and more big "super market" dealers, carrying the full range of cars for the manufacturer. In such a mar ket there will be plenty of business and profit - for those who survive...
...problem: its cargo-carrying and military airlift planes traveled only half as fast, were chiefly propeller planes. Last week the Air Force took a $1 billion step to develop a cargo-carrying jet air fleet. From Lockheed Aircraft it ordered a new 575-m.p.h. cargo-carrying jet, the Super Hercules (SOR 182). Lockheed won the contract over the competition of Boeing, Douglas and Convair, expects to deliver the first plane by late 1963. All told, the Air Force will get more than 100 planes...
Turandot differs from Puccini's operas even more than Fal differs from any Verdi work. intended his last opera to effects which never had in him before. He composed a majestic work featuring and very demanding chor and two super-heroes, and the unfeeling Chinese as Turandot...
There are three fairly distinct types of characters and music in the work: the super-heroes, Calaf and Turandot, who sing extremely high, barbarically exciting melodies; the pathetic educators, Liu and Timur, who are alloted simple, quite moving themes reminiscent of earlier Puccini; the commentators, the chorus and Turandot's amusing Chancellor, Ping, Pang and Pong, whose music abruptly shifts from lyric to comic to barbaric. Calaf and Turandot are conceived as opposing extremes. Calaf, the epitome of virility, is adventurous, aggressive, passionate and egocentric. The princess, frigidity personified, is similarly egocentric, but she is fearful of change, defensive...