Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needle full of the stuff in the stern of an edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...
After water and carbon dioxide from automatic extinguishers had put out the fire, the worn-out and heartsick missilemen found the sole survivor: the U.S.'s tiny satellite, intact, thrown out of the nose section of the rocket, broadcasting the signals that were meant to be sent down from space. The U.S. Sputnik sending from the ground was right on frequency: 108 megacycles...
...Harry Oppenheimer, 49, was elected chairman of the boards of South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (diamond), Anglo American Corp. (gold) and 14 other subsidiary companies to replace his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 9). A dark-mustached carbon copy of Sir Ernest, "Young Harry" learned the diamond business long before he went to Oxford to finish his education in 1931. He captained a company of Britain's Desert Rats against Rommel's troops in World War II, returned to Johannesburg in 1944 to take up a multitude...
...poetic mixture of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch that makes up a child's world is most beautiful in scenes of Rufus alone written outside the general text: "... (the curtains in the room) ... were touched by the carbon light of the street lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before...
...that the wily old (87) speculator has cornered the market with Baruch: My Own Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored with Baruch's blessing amid the "huge chaotic mass" of his papers, but they parted company in 1955 over questions of "interpretation." Her interpretation of Baruch...