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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to the Air Force team operating the high-altitude chamber at Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Ariz. Each day Moore, 19, and five other jet-age airmen, like similar crews at 40 other bases, carefully nursed in-training plane crews on simulated flights into thin-air altitudes. A straight-A student in off-duty courses at the University of Arizona, Specialist Moore soon learned on his Air Force duty how altitude affects the human body. Without oxygen a man blacks out above 20,000 ft., suffers from expanding intestinal gas around 25,000, feels intolerable heart strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: Suicide at 73,000 Ft. | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles and his scientific assistants made it clear that the prime purpose of the experiments, which threw a thin curtain of radation around the earth for short periods, produced results that will be used in perfecting the radar systems needed to put an anti-missile missile on course...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Successful Nuclear Test Series Brighten Hope of ICBM Defense; Khrushchev to Discuss Germany | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

...intense, rail-thin man with a bush of a mustache and thick-framed spectacles-a man society columnists joshed as Brazil's "worst dressed of 1958"-last week became front runner for the presidency in 1960. His name Janio Quadros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Running Start | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Faure Requiem | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

...these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote, in Pascal's paternity." Pascal's coment on reading the profile was: "There is thin line between genius and charlatan, and Sahm has put me on the wrong side...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Anecdotal Playwright | 3/6/1959 | See Source »

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