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...agents have found only one setup for producing this "bathtub" LSD in the area--a Boston apartment where two students were synthesizing a crude form of the drug. But they suspect that the same simple equipment may be duplicated on college campuses nearby, and that faculty members and graduate lab assistants as well as students may be involved...
...themselves with Laotian roulette: "I was tied to a tree and used for target practice-the guards tried to see how close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed two rats. We cut it open...
...lies in the development of super submarine tankers. Since the efficiency of an electromagnetic submarine increases with size, the visionary engineer is already looking forward to the day when 100,000-ton monsters will move silently beneath the surface of the world's oceans, carrying vast quantities of crude oil and gasoline safe from the storm-tossed water above them...
...system. Their search was not rewarded until 1962, when more sensitive instruments picked up the first X-ray emissions from outside the solar system. But until this year, only one additional visible object had been definitely identified as an X-ray producer: the familiar Crab Nebula.* Though their relatively crude instruments sensed X rays from about two dozen other vaguely defined areas of the sky, astronomers have been un able to tell which, if any, of the known celestial bodies were producing them. Now X-ray astronomy seems to be coming of age. The strongest X-ray source has been...
...sharp debate rages among China-watchers on the question of Red China's nuclear and rocket capability. The main point of contention is whether or not the crude nuclear devices that three times in the past two years have boomed over Lop Nor in the Takla Makan Desert are deliverable atomic bombs...