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...humans were on board. In place of the two astronauts who will eventually ride in Gemini capsules were crew simulators: black boxes weighing 160 Ibs. each, stuffed with batteries, timing devices, tape recorders and electronic apparatus capable of keeping records, testing communications and giving orders. With imperturbable efficiency, they turned the capsule so that its blunt heat shield was forward. At the proper moment, they separated an adapter section and fired four retrorockets. As the capsule dived down through the atmosphere, the shield streamed fire at 2,000° F. At 10,600 ft., a small stabilizing parachute opened, then...
Pulp & Chlorine. To brominate wood pulp, Dr. Lewin simply adds sodium bromide, which is as stable as table salt, to the solution in a standard bleaching apparatus, then bubbles chlorine through it. The combination of chemicals releases active bromine in a form that attaches itself to the lignin in the pulp. Treating solid wood is a more complicated process, but the results are spectacular. When a piece of brominated wood is put in a hot fire, it does not burn. After a while, a layer of carbon forms on its surface, but carbonization stops as soon as the wood...
...this free speech was unprecedented in Supreme Soviet debates, and Kosygin himself seemed carried away, admitting that some of the criticism was valid. "Mistakes are made," he confessed, adding with masterful and no doubt unintentional understatement: "The structure of the apparatus is sometimes cumbersome...
...dozen or so graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who comprise his team. "The last time I worked in a lab was two years ago this past summer," Bloch says. "It isn't practical during the year unless you have vast chunks of time to spend fiddling with apparatus." Bloch originates the main line of an experiment and then instructs a co-worker to carry it out. Once the results of many such experiments are available Bloch reports the findings in a professional journal...
...Council of Ministers-a tripod power base that Khrushchev alone previously enjoyed. As chairman of the Party and State Control Committee, Shelepin is also the watchdog of Russia's entire economic and administrative life, and his chairmanship of the State Control Committee gives him handcuff control over party apparatus...