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Eleven years ago Walter Paul Paepcke, millionaire president of Container Corp. of America, motored into the broad valley of Roaring Fork River in Colorado and determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world...
An instant later Mrs. duMont blanched, tried to speak but could not. Her lips turned blue. Minutes later she was dead. A few doors away, at almost the same time, Gordon M. McMullin, 53, died in the same way. Quick autopsies showed that both patients had been dosed with sodium...
Small Star. In the stars, said Teller, thermonuclear reactions are possible because the great mass of the star provides a gravitational field that holds the reacting gases together, even though their temperature may be very high. Human scientists have better nuclear fuel than the stars have, but they cannot hold...
One way to create a "small star" that reacts at enormous temperature without touching anything material is to confine the gases in a "magnetic bottle." Teller explained that the gases would be completely ionized by the heat. All the particles in them would have electric charges, and would be strongly...
BIG MERGER is under way between Owens-Illinois Glass Co. and National Container Corp., both giants in packaging. Plan calls for exchange of one share of National common stock for one share of Owens preferred plus one-fourth share of common stock. In 1955, two companies had combined $466 million...