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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1960
Page
28
A modern kaleidoscope wheel uses a stroboscope principle and television scanning lines to generate thousands of color patterns. Children insert interchangeable discs and view shifting designs on a screen, creating a lively, easy to use holiday toy with a futuristic twist.
Capt Joseph W. Kittinger Jr of the United States Air Force describes his near space parachute leap from a balloon over Mexico. He fell 18 miles in 13 minutes 45 seconds and reached 102,800 feet, detailing the sensations and scientific value in National Geographic’s December issue.
The excerpt discusses a test pilot wearing a pressure suit and stabilizing parachute during a high risk ascent. It notes potential unconsciousness within 10 to 12 seconds and death within two minutes if suit failure occurs. It credits the Beavers stabilization parachute as a major innovation since 1919 seat-pack designs.
Captain Kittinger ascended in a balloon, drifted to 102,800 feet above southern New Mexico before stepping into space. He deployed the main canopy at 17,590 feet and landed safely in a sandy area. The mission, a joint National Geographic Society and US Army Air Corps project, showcased balloon research value for extreme altitude exploration.
Britain’s Royal Mint weighs plastic money as a future exchange medium. The article traces coinage through Lydia’s electrum to Greek silver money and Sparta’s iron, noting Rome’s denarius and the shift to gold under Emperor Augustus. The piece surveys how metals shaped monetary systems across ancient civilizations.
The piece notes 1918 Army plane and White House air-to-ground radio talk using early vacuum tubes. Western Electric produced the first mass tubes for the Signal Corps in World War I. A small transistor later aided Project SCORE, sending Eisenhower’s Christmas message in December 1958.
The passage recalls how coin purity reflected national wealth and health, noting that cleaner coins signaled prosperity while debasement arose from greed and thrift. It cites Henry VIII’s deliberate adulteration of England’s coinage for personal gain and mentions a notably shabby coin as an example.
A derailed OCR passage traces coin history and wartime measures from copper coins to zinc pennies, porcelain and steel substitutions, and proposals like three cent glass pieces. It notes wooden nickels as a fad and mentions antiwar and propaganda era coinage shifts.
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