Word: breeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, AEC urged heavier stress on development of "breeder" reactors, which will create more nuclear fuel than they consume. Present-model nuclear reactors operate through fission of scarce and costly uranium 235. Natural uranium is mostly U-238; less than 1% of it is U-235. Breeder reactors would convert nonfissionable U-238 into fissionable plutonium, or convert the fairly common element thorium into fissionable U-233 (neither plutonium nor U-233 is found in nature). A few days before the 20th anniversary of the first chain reaction, AEC announced that its experimental plutonium reactor had achieved a self-sustaining...
...Breeder reactors, opening up a virtually limitless supply of power, will dispel a cloud that hangs over the future of mankind-the prospect that within a few centuries the earth's supply of coal and petroleum will be exhausted. Since modern civilization could not survive without economical sources of power, historians of the future may record that the train of atomic development beginning on Dec. 2. 1942 preserved the civilization that it sometimes seemed to threaten...
While cats make many people sneeze and alienate others with their "sneaky" ways, the pro-cat element in the nation is growing. A champion of the cat is Milan Greer, 39, whose book, The Fabulous Feline, has just been published by Dial Press. A professional cat breeder, Greer writes with none of the "dear little pussycat" gush that marks the work of most literary cat lovers. In fact, he is suspicious of anyone who claims to love cats; cats do not love people, he declares, and they probably do not even love other cats. A plane of mutual respect...
...Seattle's Lake Union swarmed with the far-ranging voyagers, and when the advance guard struggled up a fish ladder on the campus of the University of Washington, they got an unusually warm reception. Waiting to greet them was Professor (of Fisheries) Lauren R. Donaldson, their breeder, nurse and public relations man. For these were no ordinary salmon. Conceived on the campus, they were the third generation of college-bred chinooks, selected for vigor, meatiness and quick maturing. Dr. Donaldson hopes to develop them into a race of supersalmon that will forage in the northeast Pacific like high-bred...
...such a future seemed absurd. His lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged...