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Tilt Test. Among the most encouraging postflight medical findings was the almost total absence of any symptoms of orthostatic hypotension-a condition that could result from weightlessness and lead to an increase in the heart rate, coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this...
The Guild enjoys no such cohesion. A so-called "vertical" union, it embraces all sorts of employees, from editorial writers to janitors, who have little contact with each other. Though newsmen tend to champion the union movement in theory, they are hard to organize-as are most white-collar workers...
In any war, it takes time to convert to forward motion the inertia that follows a massive buildup of arms. Last week the vast engine of military power that the U.S. has installed in South Viet Nam was finally warming to its task. A new air of confidence pervaded the...
Ozawa, a thinker and tinkerer who designed such World War II bombers as the "Flying Dragon," contends that the world will soon have to adopt radical approaches to surmount the speed limits of conventional land transport. On a test track near Nagoya, he has built a miniature model of his...
Back at the brewery, other changes are under way. Some beermen are testing small aluminum kegs that provide draught beer for home refrigerators and could revive the draught-beer market, which has slumped from 75% to 18% of total consumption. After much delay, Carling last month started a continuous brewing...