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Last week aircraft experts were prepared to release a report telling of a "million-to-one shot" where scientists think St. Elmo's fire proved fatal. The plane: a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation that took off into a stormy Italian sky last June 26 from Milan, bound for New York, and crashed twelve minutes later, killing all of the nine crew members and 59 passengers aboard...
...Mongolism, where an extra chromosome has been found, the anomaly appears to be the result of a failure in subdivision, traceable to the maternal egg. In a wide range of sex abnormalities related to hermaphroditism. the number of chromosomes may range from 45 to 48. Among the anomalies, "super females" with three X (female) chromosomes, and a variant with three X chromosomes and one Y (male...
...financed their holdings. Lionel's proxy statement also disclosed that Cohn had financed the purchase of 14,587 shares of Lionel stock for Paul M. Hughes and his wife. A year ago Hughes was named -but not indicted-as a co-conspirator in a stock-fraud indictment against Super-swindler Alexander Guterma. To make Lionel's trains run on time, Cohn has employed Hughes as an administrative assistant. His salary...
...commanded the historic airlifts over the Hump in World War II and to Berlin and Korea. Most of Tunner's 483 planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam to Japan. The only long-legged, modern transport...
Time measured by the rotation of the earth will continue to be used, in spite of its inconstancy, for catching trains or getting to the church on time. But the cesium clock will be the arbiter for super accuracy. It will have no cumulative drift and can be read with an error of less than three parts in 100 billion (one second in a thousand years...