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...deputy chief of staff in charge of army intelligence. A fiery pro-Stalinist who had supported the Russians in 1956 in their attempt to overthrow Gomulka himself, General Witaszewski might not be able to improve the quality of Polish espionage, but he could be counted upon to make the apparatus more escapeproof...
...matter on Emelyanov's mind seemed to be peaceful atomic cooperation between Russia and the U.S. The two nations are now engaged, he said, in a "football game" of senseless competition, but they would get ahead faster if they built only one example of each expensive piece of apparatus (e.g., cyclotrons) and used it jointly. Last week Emelyanov signed an agreement with AEC Chairman John A. McCone which provided for exchange of scientists and information, and a cooperative effort in research on controlled thermonuclear energy...
Electric-power production is a conservative business; it makes electricity just as it did more than a century ago-by driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, spinning generators of a power station. The rest of the massive apparatus-furnaces, boilers, turbines, condensers, etc. -is only to make the generators spin. Last week Avco Corp. described an infant invention that may grow into a wholly different and more efficient way to generate electricity...
Avco's apparatus, called a magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) electric generator, works on the principle that any conductor of electricity that is moved through a magnetic field will generate in itself a current of electricity. This applies not only to copper wires (as in conventional generators), but to gases, which become conductors when they are made so hot that some of their atoms separate (ionize) into electrically charged particles. If forced through a magnetic field, a stream of ionized gas causes an electrical current to flow across it. This principle has been known for years, and many efforts have been...
...could take care of that. The author is a disciple of the late Psychologist Alfred Adler, inventor of the universal inferiority complex. It is Langner's extrapolation of the master's work that man clothes himself in order to feel superior-to the beasts by hiding his apparatus for procreation and excretion, and to other men by putting...