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Some of the characters are old hands at the game. Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon made his first foray against the Reds in 1947. George Wunder's Terry, like Canyon a U.S. Air Force pilot, is as good at outmaneuvering the Russian and Chinese Communists as he ever was against the China-coast pirates of the 1930s. Navy Commander Buz Sawyer has just set forth on a mission against the international dope trade-or, as Sawyer's creator. Artist Roy Crane, put it, "the sinister machinations of a World Power...
...cold eye on the problems of God and man at the Vatican. After dismissing the encyclical as ''a venture in triviality" in one issue, the magazine returned to the attack with the revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
Elephant Walk. "Under increased gravity," says Wunder, after studying motion pictures of his high-G hamsters, "the hamsters walk around and seem to adapt very nicely, but their walking pattern is more like an elephant than a hamster. They're a bit perturbed about having to carry a bigger load." When young mice or hamsters are put on a centrifuge, they usually lose considerable weight for three or four days. "Apparently they have trouble digesting their food," says Dr. Wunder. "They level off and gain back their original weight, but they never get as big as ordinary mice...
After as little as one week, the femurs (leg bones) of young mice get rounder in cross section than normal femurs. Dr. Wunder believes that this change is an adaptation to strengthen the bone and allow it to support the abnormal weight of the high-G mouse. Chickens react in somewhat the same way: Dr. Alfred Smith of the University of California has found that when they are centrifuged, the anti-gravity muscles of their drumsticks grow to as much as seven times normal. But chickens are not so successful as mice at high-G reproduction. They try-but tend...
...other chickens in the earth's normal 1-G field. "It looks as if they get a stoppage of the gut," he says. "After all, at 4-Gs their hearts were pumping fluid with the normal density of molten iron." At the present point in their experiments, neither Wunder nor Smith cares to predict the effect on the human body of space-age gravitational changes. But the logical extension of the test results so far would indicate that a child growing up on the moon, with its .16-G force, would have light bones. And the legs...