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Nothing Simpler. Avco's Mark II generator has no moving parts; yet it generates 1,350 kilowatts of electric power. Dr. Kantrowitz likes to say that his creation is just like an ordinary rotary generator, but simpler. In one sense he is correct: a conventional generator has electrical conductors (copper wires) that are spun in a magnetic field by a steam turbine. Their motion causes a current to flow through them. In an MHD generator the conductor is a hot gas (plasma) that has been ionized by having electrons knocked off some of its atoms. When the plasma squirts...
...Beyer, the editor who wrote the story "Tutorial for the Natural Sciences" in the last Weekly Review, had kept his promises to check back with us before submitting his story for publication, we should not be asking you now to correct two errors...
...trouble with this attitude is that it assumes the infallibility of a few experts who, once fed the proper information, will mechanically arrive at the correct decision 100 per cent of the time. Another problem with the attitude is that it runs counter to most notions of democracy. Sealing the public off from the facts on which the government bases its decisions must necessarily create an atmosphere of public sluggishness, and an automatic assumption that the leader's decisions are unfailingly correct...
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Setting the Course. "I never cared too much for old Harry Truman," growled a California farmer. "But he damn sure wouldn't have let Khrushchev move into Cuba." "We had a chance to correct the Cuba situation," said Thomas O'Grady, an Illinois railroad switchman. "But we lost it. I'm not blaming Kennedy, but hell, we've got to do something before things get out of hand down there." Following the example of Senior Republican Dwight Eisenhower, G.O.P. candidates have taken to the attack, charging the Administration with irresolution in its foreign policy and weakness...