Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when President Janio Quadros put out to sea in a fit of pea-green pique in 1961. Blaming Brazil's ills on the calendar is like blaming winter on the woolly bear; but last week, as Brazilians watched their potentially prosperous country sink deeper into economic and political con fusion, it must have been August's fault. It could hardly be President João Goulart's; he hadn't done anything...
That something else was Cassius Clay. For his night's work on Patterson, Liston collected $300,000 of a $1,600,000 gate; with Clay, the gate might go to $8,000,000. It was a casting director's dream: Liston, the ex-con, scowling, surly, somnolent; Clay, the will-o'-the-wisp, gaudy, gay, garrulous, boastful, poetic. This time there would be emotion enough for everybody. People hate Liston and he hates them right back. People hiss at Clay and he laughs in their faces...
...there is potential danger in any nuclear plant. After it has run for a while, the fuel in its core (Con Ed plans to use 113 tons of uranium oxide) is contaminated with fiercely radioactive fission products. If this unpleasant stuff got spread around the countryside by any sort of explosion, it would do as much harm as the fallout from an atom bomb. Millions of people live within a few miles of Con Ed's projected installation. To reduce this danger to a minimum, the plant proposed for the Borough of Queens, on New York's East...
...inch thick separated by 2 ft. of porous concrete. Pumps will draw from the concrete any radioactive gas that seeps into it. And outside all this will be 5½ ft. of concrete strongly reinforced with a network of steel bars. The great dome will be strong enough, say Con Ed engineers, to hold the most violent explosion that could possibly happen inside, and it will be tight enough to keep any trace of radioactive gas from reaching the outdoors. In normal operation, except for diluted gases discharged up a 500-ft. smokestack and harmless amounts of waste washed away...
...types of water reactors in a competition that one engineer says "is reducing costs faster than scientists ever could." Westinghouse holds an edge in the U.S. market: it won the last three contracts (for Connecticut Yankee and the two Los Angeles plants), and has an inside track on Con Ed's New York plant, for which it did the design research. The two companies are knocking heads over Jersey Central's reactor; for General Electric's prestige, that contract is almost a must...