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...steering column. Ford has substituted electronic for human control in its "dual displacement engine" (DDE). A small (6 in. by 6 in. by 1? in.) black box mounted on the fire wall is fed information from five strategically placed sensors. These devices monitor the temperature of the engine coolant, the engine speed, the transmission setting, the engine manifold vacuum pressure and the throttle angle...
...inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water into steam. The resulting blasts rip open the power plant's massive concrete dome, releasing a cloud of radioactive gases...
Middle East Coolant...
...worst jobs in the plant. The men worked amid screeching ear-splitting noise where there was no air-conditioning and poor ventilation and where the temperature reached 120 degrees. The lighting was dim, the floors were oily, and a thick blue mist of evaporated coolant made it impossible to see from wall to wall. The men were issued specially lined gloves to handle the hot iron but the grease and the work wore them down in a day. Soon Johnson lost one finger and lacerated another. He had back, stomach, chest and head pains; he often felt nauseous...
...AFTER ENTERING, a notice Commands; the racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood, Mickey and Pluto and the others blown up to preternatural size, then guillotined; their eyes goggle from the shelves like big affable poached eggs. There is even a set of coolant waistcoats, their design a spin-off from NASA; they circulate a chemical refrigerant round the body. In this humid and swampy acreage of Florida, every hot duck on Main Street contains a hotter man wildly signaling...