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...Cambridge Electron Accelerations bubble chamber -- one of the largest in the world -- will no longer used here and may be shipped to Long Island, Chicago or Stanford...
...Chamber Music...
...farther than the chamber of the U.S. Senate as the new bill was passed last week to see how variegated the U.S. is. In the presiding officer's chair sat Hubert Humphrey, son of a Norwegian mother. Much in evidence were Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, whose parents hailed from counties Kilkenny and Limerick, and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, son of Germans. In the semicircular rows that arced to the rear of the chamber sat New York's Jack Javits, son of an Austrian and a Palestinian; Hawaii's Hiram Fong, whose parents were born in China; Connecticut...
...green and gold chamber of the U.N.'s Security Council, the eyes of the diplomats flicked back and forth from the clock on the north wall to the impassioned face of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto. Before him lay the answer to everyone's question: Would it be wider war or tempo rary peace for South Asia? Bhutto waited until the last possible moment before answering...
Most of the world's 200 desalinization plants, though, from Kuwait to Aruba to Chocolate Bayou, Texas, operate on the "teakettle technique," the colloquial name for multistage flash distillation. In this system, sea water is heated and sprayed into a low-pressure chamber where it flashes into steam. As it passes through a series of similar chambers, even more fresh water is steamed off until, in the more efficient operations, an average of 3½ gallons of sea water is turned into a gallon of fresh. So pure is the result that sometimes a jigger of such contaminants...