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Then, as the route swerved through the traffic-clogged heart of the Ruhr, a blinding snowstorm covered the road with an eight-inch blanket of snow in a single hour. On the worst stretch, co-drivers had to run ahead to guide their partners through a maze of stalled and jackknifed trailer trucks...
...ground will make an area of 4,000 square miles, mostly downwind, so radioactive that all people in it will get a "serious to lethal dose" in the first day alone. If they cannot evacuate, they will get more. Dr. Lapp believes that the explosion of 50 superbombs could blanket the entire northeastern U.S. "in a serious to lethal radioactive...
Today the University carries blanket coverage for all its buildings and property. It also subscribes to an inspection service which checks University grounds annually. According to the contract with the service, the dormitory ropes are supposed to be gone over twice each year. But even in the modern age of cigarette fires in sofas, the college has no record of an undergraduate escaping a fire in his room by sliding down a rope...
Curtice enjoys practical jokes, even when they are on him (his companions once brought along a wired blanket and gave him a tooth-tingling shock when he sat on it). At a party after he became president of General Motors, everyone thought it a great idea to present him with a chef's outfit to kid the boss-the small-town boy who made good-about one of his early jobs...
...Offset lithography, which prints from a rubber blanket on uncoated paper, is best for pictures originally painted on highly absorbent grounds, such as watercolors. t| Collotype, which requires no screen to produce half tones, shows no dots under a magnifying glass, is excellent for reproducing subtle gradations of light and color, and best for editions under...