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...thermonuclear fusion, the same energy process that powers the sun. Under Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov, Lebedev scientists are using high-energy laser beams in an effort to produce a plasma, or ionized gas, of sufficiently high temperature and density to sustain a fusion reaction. Kurchatov researchers are using powerful doughnut-shaped machines, acronymically named Tokamaks, to obtain the same results with intense magnetic fields. Academician Lev Artsimovich, head of the Kurchatov work, doubts that anyone will be able to produce power from fusion in less than 20 or 30 years. "When you hear scientists boasting that they will achieve...
...every sci-fi fan knows, one of the great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
...huge National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Ill. Crowds of curious spectators hovered anxiously around the main control room, watching the meters and oscilloscope screens. On the screens, a narrow band of light-representing the electrical energy in a beam of speeding subatomic particles inside the atom smasher's doughnut-shaped tunnel-edged toward a telltale marking. The room became strangely silent. Then someone exclaimed, "There it is!" and wild cheering broke...
...immediately negative. Said one woman: "That means you're waving the red flag of liberalism." Still, the new consciousness has touched the town, perhaps changed it slightly. The Union Carbide factory has opened all its job categories to women. When the men gather over their coffee in the doughnut shop on the square, they no longer criticize married women for working. Retired Assistant Postmaster Gordon Will notes: 'They used to say, 'What does she think she's doing out of the house?' You don't hear them talk like that any more." Though there...
...youngest Muskie coordinator in Florida (the oldest of the six is only 27), Howell works his territory at a frenetic and heady pace. Up every morning at 7, he wolfs down a doughnut and coffee in his Datsun as he sets out to proselytize for Muskie. "My job," Howell says, "is to put together the organization...