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...apothecaries' table), three ways of measuring length (linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half, but equals one-twentieth of an ounce. Both ounces and quarts have entirely different values in different tables, and pounds...
Ford's showpieces are a one-of-a-kind sports version of its Falcon compact, the Challenger I, with a tuned 244-cu.-in. engine and special suspension designed to cruise at 120 m.p.h., and the Cougar 406, with gull-wing doors and a top speed of 160 m.p.h. Chevrolet's sports compact is a 150-h.p. version of the Corvair known as the Monza Spyder, and there are two special show models of the Corvette-the Shark and the Kelly...
...carcasses of laboratory mice injected with isotopes-and in the hypodermic needle that injected them, and in the laundry water that washed the laboratory coat of the technician. In 1955 the total amount of land-buried waste in the AEC's main burial grounds came to 316,000 cu. ft.; by last year that figure was up to 1,125,000 cu...
...packing necessary for safe sea disposal makes it expensive: to dispose of radioactive waste at sea costs $10 to $20 per cu. ft. In comparison, disposal firms can bury low-level waste on land for 70? a cu. ft. in atomic graveyards maintained by AEC at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Idaho Falls. Here drums are deposited in 15-ft. holes and covered with concrete and earth. The disposal fields cost the U.S. $6,000,000 a year to maintain, and AEC expects to establish from five to ten more...
Touched off when static electricity ignited gas escaping from a blown valve at a well called GT2, the Gassi Touil fire would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century, wasting forever one of the largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts...