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...dead silence, a fire crew inched toward the still monster to douse its blackened rocket chambers with a blanket of foam. The sled's tail flared into a puff of flame, like a last gesture of defiance, and the test run was over. A quick check of the chronographs showed that Sonic Wind No. 2 had hit 995 m.p.h...
...REACTORS. British, Dutch and U.S. scientists spelled out almost to "do-it-yourself" simplicity the operations of their most advanced reactor designs. Chief among them: AEC's Brookhaven liquid-metal fuel reactor, powered by circulating molten solution of uranium in bismuth, in a "blanket" of thorium-bismuth compound (Th 3 Bi 5 ). The thorium breeds U-233, which is recycled as fuel, making fuel costs "negligible...
...House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service approved a 7½% blanket raise for 1,073,262 Government employees, which will boost the federal payroll by $325 million a year...
Electric Comforter. The first electric comforter was put on sale by the Julee Comforter Manufacturing Corp. of New York City. Similar to an electric blanket, Electropuff is lighter than most ordinary comforters and is mothproof. Price: $24.95 for twin-bed, $29.95 for double-bed size...
...Kerry Donovan took the 50-yard freestyle in a blanket finish which the judges took over 15 minutes to decide. Yale's Rex Aubrey took second, followed by Dick Pennigton of the University of Iowa, Dartmouth's John Glover, Robinson Ord of Cornell, and the Crimson's Chouteau Dyer...