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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bucket on a String. The general idea of space travel, Porter concedes, is "sound enough." Using the pull of gravity-allowing the spaceship to "fall freely"- would permit small fuel loads. Five thousand miles from earth, a satellite way station could be established, revolving continuously around the earth at 1,400 m.p.h. like a bucket on an invisible string. Moored alongside, the spaceship would require only 50% increase in speed to take it out to an elliptical orbit swinging half a million miles to the moon and back...
After weeks of hesitation over whether to start a small test program with Salk polio vaccine and a few thousand volunteers, Britain's health authorities made up their minds last week. They canceled the whole thing as too dangerous. Said Dr. Graham Selby Wilson, director of the Public Health Laboratory Service: "I do not see how any vaccine prepared by [Dr. Jonas] Salk's method can be guaranteed to be safe...
...after the Nazis took over, Kastner and some of his colleagues were called before Karl Eichmann, a top Nazi official, to listen to a proposition. "I want to do business," Eichmann told them. "Blood for goods, goods for blood. I am willing to sell one million Jews for ten thousand trucks, a thousand cans of coffee and tea and some soap. Go to Switzerland, Turkey, Spain-go where you will, but bring me back goods...
Church officials preserved strict silence on political matters, but several thousand of their communicants staged a spontaneous procession to the burned churches, and shouted for the return of Bishop Manuel Tato, one of the high-ranking prelates exiled by Perón just before the revolt. In another effective gesture. Buenos Aires' Bishop Miguel de Andrea, the only high-ranking Argentine prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black...
...check the color, drinks deeply in great, man-sized gulps, never sipping or swirling the beer in his mouth the way whisky or wine tasters do. "Ah," he will say quietly, "this is it," or, "No, no, the malt, the malt." Then he will order any one of a thousand slight changes to keep the various Anheuser-Busch brews uniform. After two hours of tasting. Brewmaster Schwaiger heads for home in a rosy glow of beer and good cigars. Says he: "And I think then that perhaps I have the very best job in all the world...