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...sure he likes being where events have swept him. In his eloquent preface to My Life and Hard Times, Thurber complained of feeling much the same; the humorist, he wrote, "knows vaguely that the nation is not much good any more; he has read that the crust of the earth is shrinking alarmingly and that the universe is growing steadily colder, but he does not believe that any of the three is in half as bad shape as he is." Thurber's readers, all paid-up members of the age, of anxiety, knew very well they were...
...Russians were trying to hide their tests, they would have held them underground. Underground explosions send no ordinary radio signals or barometric waves. They are invisible to radar, and they scatter no telltale fallout. But they do create powerful earth waves that travel in the earth's crust and deep through its interior. A powerful underground explosion registers on seismographs all over the world, and smaller explosions are detected at shorter distances. The fault of this system is that weak bomb waves are hard to distinguish from the waves of natural earthquakes. Some experts claim that underground explosions send...
...large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that a ten-megaton test would need to be exploded 18 miles below the surface. At this depth the rock is probably so plastic that digging a test hole would be impossible. Another possibility is to fire tests above...
...winged, 6,000-ton concrete roof of his TWA terminal at Idlewild to his new Dulles International Airport at Chantilly, Va., with its moving waiting room-a daring, a willingness to experiment with form that few of his contemporaries had. "An architect must have a combination of sensitivity and crust," he said, and he had both...
...manganese oxides that slowly deposit from sea water. Other surfaces were fresh and light green. Dr. John B. Hersey, chief scientist of the cruise, believes that the chunks with fresh faces were broken by the dredge out of the mysterious third layer. If so, they may show what the crust of the earth was like billions of years ago, before the infant ocean rained sediment...