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When astronauts eventually soar be yond the moon to explore the distant planets, they will find Jupiter a dangerous place to visit. Even if they manage to withstand the tremendous pull of Jupiter's gravity and survive the frigid atmosphere of ammonia, methane, hydrogen and helium, they may well perish in the gigantic storms that sweep the planet every decade...
Last week Olin dedicated the world's largest ammonia plant at Lake Charles, La., thus increasing its substantial stake in the fast-growing world market for chemical fertilizer. The $19 million plant will produce 1,400 tons of ammonia a day, require a crew of only 32. It should eventually enable Olin to shut down its older, more costly ammonia plant at Lake Charles, where a staff of 71 produces only 350 tons a day. To take full advantage of the need for fertilizers-the world must double its food supply by 1980 just to keep even-the company...
...most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud (a giant snowstorm") began to condense into separate bodies-"dirty snowballs" of dust and ices made up of methane, ammonia and water. Some of these bodies were captured by the outer planets and fell onto them, and some fell into the sun. About 1% of them, Whipple thinks, have gone into orbit around the sun as periodic comets ranging in size from tiny bits to as much as 20 miles...
...filth," says John W. Gardner, the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. U.S. rivers and streams, like the muddy Missouri, used to be contaminated with nothing worse than silt, some salt, and the acids from mines. Now they are garbage dumps. Raw sewage, scrap paper, ammonia compounds, toxic chemicals, pesticides, oil and grease balls as big as a human fist-these are the unsavory contents of thousands of miles of U.S. waterways...
...reversal voids Estes' eight-year sentence for inducing Texas farmers to buy non-existent ammonia-fertilizer tanks, but he will be retried (without TV). Meanwhile, he is serving a separate 15-year stretch in Leavenworth on a federal conviction for mail fraud and conspiracy...