Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major opus of the disc is the Cadaver Quartet," which is firmly in tradition of the metaphysical rock. basic problem is that of a teener couple separated by the untimely death of one of its members. In the "Cadaver Quartet" the girl dies of carbon monoxide fumes while making love in a parked car, and her boy friend is properly distraught. He first tells of his eternal devotion to her corpse. She answers from Above that he must concentrate on her soul because the dead body is sure to lose its appeal. Not quite convinced, the boy soon gets...
...signs of bugs. All eyewitnesses are interrogated, and what they saw-the angles and distances-is recorded by surveyor's transit so that the CAB will be able to plot the flight path with great accuracy. If bodies of the crew are found, they are examined for alcohol, carbon-monoxide poisoning, heart attack, stroke, even bullet holes or other inflicted wounds. And all recorded conversations between crew and ground stations are minutely studied for clues...
...tetrahedron frequently appears in nature: the spatial orientation of a carbon atom's valence electrons, for example, is tetrahedral. Fuller also noted that all three-dimensional geometric figures reduce to combinations of tetrahedra. The tetrahedron, in fact, "is the minimum system for subdividing the universe...
...oceanographers also plan to measure the amount of carbon dioxide that is absorbed from the atmosphere by the icy water of the Antarctic. Many scientists believe that the carbon dioxide discharged by man's furnaces and engines is accumulating in the atmosphere, where it may some day drastically change earth's climate by acting like the glass of a great, global greenhouse. More cheerful theorists think that cold ocean water takes fresh C02 out of the atmosphere as fast as it is generated. Observations made on Eltanin may help settle the argument...
...major industries besides Ford have been lured to Valencia with a total investment of some $110 million. Among them: United Carbon, $3.3 million investment; Britain's Rootes Motors, $1 million; British-American Tobacco, $8 million; Container Corp. of America, $6.6 million; Owens-Illinois, $6.2 million; Armco Steel Corp., $4.4 million. When it started, the council hoped some day to see a payroll of $800,000 each week. Though most of the plants are still unfinished and many regular production employees have yet to be hired, 12,000 new industrial jobs have already been created, and the Saturday payroll...