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...sure that the human crews can take it. At 50,000 ft., where a jet plane can fly, the air is no use to the pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...produce it. The basis for this assertion is something Fischer calls Inertness, the quality of the Russian mind which excludes initiative and makes action wholly dependent on minutely detailed orders from on high. The most interesting part of "Soviet Opposition to Stalin" is Fischer's exploration of this vacuum of will, where he lucidly and briefly outlines what conditions mold such a mentality and how. When he is done, his thesis seems unexceptionable...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories produced the first germanium transistor, they knew they had found a long-awaited short cut through the great glass jungle of the electronics age (TIME, Feb. 11). With the ease of the old-fashioned carborundum crystal, it can change alternating current to direct; and like a vacuum tube, it can amplify faint, fluctuating currents. But where the vacuum tube is often bulky, fragile and uses large amounts of power, the rugged little transistor, no bigger than a thumbnail, works on minute amounts of energy. Last week in Princeton, N.J., the Radio Corp. of America demonstrated just...
...electronic calculating machine using 66 transistors, capable of 1,000,000 counting actions a second. Standard unit in many mechanical brains, this counter uses 1/30 the power, is 1/8 the weight and 1/10 the size of its vacuum-tube predecessor...
...Cummings: "You may have to be, when I'm through with you"), and so is all the acting, but there are plenty of simple-minded laughs. The Bob Hope Show (weekdays, 9:30 a.m., NBC) is designed strictly for housewives who want something to laugh at over their vacuum cleaners before tuning in the soap operas. Hope handles the job in snappy style (before a live audience of ladies), dots the radio program with interviews and a weekly "guest lady editor," e.g., Zsa Zsa Gabor, Cobina Wright...