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...were born on the island, mostly of English and Channel Island stock, with generous traces of Irish, Scotch and French. Isolated for centuries, their character tempered by wresting a living from their bleak island and the sea around it, the Newfies have developed into an independent, hardworking, happy breed. Their wit and individuality show strongly in their geographic names. Newfoundland places are called Happy Adventure, Come By Chance, Heart's Delight, Witless Bay, Cuckold's Cove, Naked Woman Point and Horse Chops. Humor and theology are neatly blended in the fact that a harbor with a broad, easy...
Burning Plutonium. The purpose of the Arco breeder is to "breed" more plutonium than is needed to replace the U-235 that it consumes. Dr. Zinn did not say so directly, but his and Commissioner Zuckert's optimism suggests that it can be done. If so, the "power only" reactors of the future can burn all of their uranium, not merely the .7% that is naturally fissionable. There will be no need for the Government to buy their plutonium; it will be burned too. If uranium gets scarce, the "fertile blanket" can be made of thorium, which neutrons turn...
...gallon jugs, moonshine sells in cities for about $2 a fifth. The deliveries are made by a new breed of rumrunner, drivers of souped-up cars which can hit 100 m.p.h. All but the amateurs equip them with truck springs in the rear to eliminate the telltale sag caused by heavy loads. The average fee for transportation is around $1.00 a gallon. Sold undiluted at the still for $4 a gallon, the juice still leaves the moonshiner with an operating profit of 200% or more...
...boss's attention is to adopt his own hobbies: " 'Got to hurry home, sir. The little devils are whelping.' 'Whelping, Finch? Don't tell me you're a mongoose man!' 'Are you too, sir? We are a rare breed, aren...
...Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow of the New and Fair Deals. He is usually a smart lawyer...