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...Womb at the Top." To abandon a foundering spacecraft, the astronaut dons extravehicular activity (EVA) gear, seals himself in the lifeboat and vents carbon dioxide and excess oxygen from his EVA suit to power the craft's attitude-control system. Face pressed against the porthole, he aligns his lifeboat with the horizon by firing the attitude-control jets. After sighting a landmark on earth with the reticle marked on the porthole, he aims and fires the retrorocket for 100 seconds, thus braking the lifeboat to a de-orbiting speed of 16,500 m.p.h. Then the retrorocket is jettisoned...
Skeptical astronauts call Johnson's OES the "Womb at the Top." Along with most NASA officials, they favor instead the "redundancy" approach of providing auxiliary systems to take over for any that fail. Moreover, as presently conceived, Johnson's lifeboat will be usable only on near-earth orbits. Even so, work on it has progressed further than on any other rescue system. Small-scale models have been repeatedly drop-tested in laboratory experiments. Computerized simulations of re-entry have uncovered potential flaws that are being corrected; Johnson's nylon heat shield has stood up well under rigorous...
Where birth-control pills are concerned, Harvard's Dr. Robert W. Kistner last week reported that he had prescribed oral contraceptives containing the synthetic equivalent of the female hormone progesterone to 66 women with signs of precancerous change of the endometrium (lining of the womb). The endometrium is a fairly common cancer site, with at least 3,700 fatal cases expected in the U.S. this year, mainly among women who fail to ovulate and therefore do not secrete progesterone. But among Dr. Kistner's 66 patients, some treated as long as nine years ago, the precancerous condition...
...almost old enough to be in the Oxford English Dictionary: "Cool it," "bug out," "put on," "stay loose." Lynda did uncover one fairly recondite turn of phrase. To "turn your E.B. up to Mother" means to "turn your electric blanket up to the highest temperature; hence, return to the womb and security (chiefly West Coast...
...clothes closet, and a son (Robert Morse), arguably alive, who at 25 still sucks his thumb and sleeps in a set of Dr. Denton drop-seat pajamas. Forbidden by Mamma to leave the suite or even answer the telephone, the son is delightfully alarmed to discover that his hotel womb has a view. Specifically, the view includes the resident baby-sitter (Barbara Harris). But when he tries to get Mother out of the way by arranging a date for the old nymph with a local satyr (Hugh Griffith), she coolly arranges a harpy ending...