Word: atomizer
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While sitting in the ashes and donning my sackcloth, I am contemplating the achievements of mankind. We split the atom, we walked on the moon, we invented every imaginable destructive weapon of war. Now there is a new rumbling in our midst presenting a different challenge: How do we tame an angry mountain...
...Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself arrested. Much of the comedy in the novel is of the atom-smashing variety; people and props ricochet off each other into unforeseen trajectories. Ignatius' favorite work is Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy...
...solar power or other sources feasible, nuclear energy will remain necessary both to provide enough power and to control fuel costs. France has shown the way to safe and extensive use of nuclear energy. By the mid-1980s the country will be getting 55% of its electricity from the atom, as compared to 19% with...
Similarly, in World War II, our leaders wastefully committed massive ground forces in Europe and planned an invasion of southern Japan with a contemplated death toll of over a million American lives after Japan had already been reduced to such military impotence that even without the atom bomb, air attack, naval bombardment and blockade during the fall and winter of 1945-6 would inevitably have brought about her surrender at minimal cost in American blood...
...reactor there-the pro-nuke momentum will be hard to break. A Harris poll conducted after the Three Mile Island accident indicated that 57% of Frenchmen supported their government's nuclear program. Still, Giscard is taking no chances that people might forget the advantages of the atom. Last month he announced a 15% electricity discount to anyone living near a nuclear plant...