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...Soder Ash." In a 30-minute Duluth speech, he was not once interrupted by applause. At the University of North Dakota, where next day he received an honorary doctor of laws degree, the President's reception was equally cool. At Cheyenne, the people scarcely understood that he was talking about one of Wyoming's chief industries when he referred to "soder ash."* At Laramie, he twice stumbled over the word "electrometallurgy," finally ad-libbed: "The words are getting longer as the months go on." Smokey Bear was turning out to be a real turkey-and the President knew...
...advances did only a few years ago, but Litton is already working in many areas that could lead to them (the company is studying, for example, submarine cargo ships that could cruise serenely beneath the surface, ignoring the turbulent weather above). "These things are going to happen," says Roy Ash. "We have already crossed the technical boundary. It is only the economic boundary that has to be crossed. So it is no longer science fiction, but science fact and economic fiction...
...sound is musical Braille to Kirk. "The buzz of a doorbell is a note," he says; "the clunk of an ash tray on a table, that's percussion. I was riding in a taxi and the driver blew his horn. 'Man, you just made some music,' I told him." Whatever the taxi driver thought, Roland Kirk had found another lost chord...
Water Upstairs. Downtown nuclear plants are attractive for several reasons. They pour no smoke, fly ash or combustion gases into a city's overburdened atmosphere. Since they are close to load-centers, they need no long and costly transmission lines. What is equally important in crowded urban areas, a two-year supply of uranium fuel for a million-kilowatt plant can be stored in the space of an average living room...
...because the people had not asked permission to hold their festival. But the priests and their disciples stayed on to pray. At 7 o'clock one morning, Agung erupted again. The villages of Sebudi, Sorgah, and Sebih were engulfed by a lethal black cloud of searing, 230° ash that roasted hundreds where they knelt. Rivers of grey-black lava boiled over Agung's southern lip and flowed in fiery rivulets down stream beds, raising clouds of steam; heavy rains, possibly caused by the heat of the volcano, mixed with the sulphurous ash to form an acid that...