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...scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit...
...figures in the polyptych include witty to catty personifications of a multitude of U.S. types. Copied mostly from Sharrer's snapshots of real people, they have the flat, posed and curiously weightless quality that snapshots do. Sharrer arranged the figures in her pictures after drawing them all separately, admits it was a tedious problem to squeeze them into some sort of composition. The results are cluttered, and made more so by Sharrer's inability to put a sense of space into her backgrounds. Yet the golden 5 o'clock light, perhaps symbolic of quitting time, that floods...
...sculpture, warmth is less easily achieved. The Greeks did it consistently, but few moderns care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...
...Boston, N.H. awarded three prizes for the best essays on doing away with gravity. What Babson is after is an "antigravity screen" to insulate heavy objects from the pull of the gravity-causing earth. He likes to play with the notion that people, airplanes, etc. could be made weightless at will...
...Weightless World. An inhabited satellite would be a strange place for the crew. Their cabin would have to be pressurized and protected against the sun's heat, cosmic rays and meteors. Since it would be "falling" freely, the crew would not feel the earth's gravitation any more than do the passengers of a freely falling elevator. Their bodies, tools-and food would have no weight except that caused by the feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce...