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...pomp.' It gives one a little sense of mortality." With help from on high, a cathedral under construction in Britain got a finishing touch. At Coventry Cathedral, a twin-rotor helicopter picked up a two-ton, Soft, spire, flew the length of the church's copper-covered concrete roof, hovered dead on target while builders bolted the spire into place. Supplier of the helicopter: the Royal Air Force, whose outnumbered pilots had to watch helplessly one night 22 years ago when 500 Luftwaffe bombers hit Coventry in the war's worst raid on Britain and reduced...
...This indicates," Dr. Wacker pointed out, "that there is mitotic arrest and a block in both RNA and protein synthesis resulting from zinc deficiency--a condition that is not reversed when other trace metals [iron, manganese, copper, magnesium and calcium] metabolic precursors or metabolites, are added to the nutrient solution in which the organism is grown...
...pieces of copper clung together as if welded-but there was no adhesive between them. As they explained how they turned the trick, scientists of the National Research Corp. gave U.S. technology a practical and powerful boost into space...
Britain's copper-rich protectorate of Northern Rhodesia has a population of 2,394,000, in which the blacks outnumber the whites by 30 to 1 and are threatening revolt unless they get power to match the proportions. Last week Britain bowed to the inevitable and gave the white-dominated protectorate a new constitution that may put the blacks in control by the end of this year...
...Force project was to encircle the globe with a band made up of 350 million tiny copper wires, which could be used as a reflector to relay radio messages. Nothing has since been seen of the wires. *Named for Loveman Noa, a 23-year-old midshipman, who was killed in 1901 near Leyte in the Philippines while fighting insurgents...