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...Chick just busts out like a boiler...
...Hughes Steamer ... He found two young kids, Lewis and Burns, and I told them what I wanted ... a steamer that would get up a head of steam instantly, or as close as possible, and one that would give me four to five hundred miles without having to refill the boiler. I put them in a garage out near Caddo's headquarters on Romaine Street and I let them...
Even so, Wilson's story is filled with heroism, excitement and sharp detail that even the dreariest agitprop boiler plate cannot obscure. On the march, reports Mao's batman, "he used to carry his briefcase himself, and the umbrella." Mao's so-called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin...
...commonly believed (see box, opposite). That could change if voters found themselves in the booths next November, forced to make a decisive judgment about the case. For the episode does indeed raise a serious question about Kennedy's potential behavior in the White House. One of the "boiler room" girls who attended the party that night has long been a Kennedy partisan. But she muses: "He's seen two brothers killed, and the Chappaquiddick thing has happened. How stable can anybody be in light of all that...
...their promise, many design problems must be solved before breeders can produce electricity on a commercial scale. One difficulty lies in handling the coolant-the liquid or gas used to transfer heat from inside the reactor's core to a steam-producing boiler outside. Unlike conventional reactors, which use water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive...