Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's Atlas was beefed up for its job, and it performed perfectly; the MA4 accelerated surely into its planned orbit. Strapped in the capsule instead of a man sat an oblong box that performed most of an astronaut's functions: it consumed oxygen, excreted carbon dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury communication system. Out of a porthole and periscope peered two cameras. Special instruments recorded the assorted stimuli that would have assaulted a human astro naut: vicious...
Died. Abbé Henri Breuil, 84, paleontologist-priest who in the face of disbelieving colleagues proclaimed the paleolithic origin of the famed cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and the Dordogne region of France-a contention that was later borne out by radioactive-carbon dating; near Paris...
...business pages. At midweek Cities Service won an Interior Department contract to extract, process and sell to the U.S. up to $9.1 million a year worth of helium, production of which the Government previously monopolized. Next day Watson announced plans for a $108 million stock swap to acquire Columbian Carbon Co., an $80 million-a-year producer of carbon black, ink and pigments.Both moves were part of Watson's strategy to hedge Cities Service's bet in the slipping oil industry by expanding in related fields...
...frenzy with the imaginative use of modern techniques. One successful device: permanent television. Executives of the First National City Bank of New York, for example, use closed circuit television between midtown and Wall Street offices to avoid time-wasting and frustrating travel between two points that are 82 carbon-filled blocks apart...
...that hits them. Their leaves look green because they reflect most of the green and yellow light at the center of the visible spectrum. Their chlorophyll absorbs chiefly red and blue light, so only a small part of sunlight's total energy is used to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar, cellulose and other materials that plants need for growth...