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The difficulty in using the deuterium-fueled fusion process is that it requires temperatures as hot as those on the surface of the sun. Physicists can only sustain these by suspending the materials in a network of magnetic waves, since any other container would draw off heat too rapidly.
Any author who promises board and room to seven fictional child prodigies would seem to be diving into a container of water that is very small indeed. The Glass children, moreover, are brave, clean, reverent, and overwhelmingly lovable. Yet they never become the seven deadly siblings (at least they are...
...there were 554,000 flatcar piggyback trips last year. Barring a reversal in the courts, the new decision should enable the railroads to regain a substantial percentage of the nation's freight business. Railroad men see almost unlimited possibilities for a sensible idea with the awkward name of "containerization"-moving a sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with truckers in building large piggyback terminals, can now go full speed ahead with plans...
¶ Leo Schoenhofen, 45, was elected president of Container Corporation of America, succeeding Wesley Dixon, 64, who will remain as board chairman and chief executive officer. Since the death of Container Corp.'s longtime President Walter Paepcke last year, Schoenhofen has been groomed for the top spot, will most...
Since then, Radiation Lab scientists have gone right on adding to the table of elements. By last week they were up to No. 103. But the job is getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was...