Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just north of Great Bitter Lake, a U.N. station wagon drove up to a military police checkpoint. Vast clouds of dust, churned up by tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business...
...words more appropriate to enemies than friends. Although both sides of the Atlantic busily and belatedly tried to patch things up last week, the damage to the 24-year-old NATO alliance, which was already showing signs of wear, may be lasting. "There's a lot of dust floating around," says a ranking Italian official, "and it's going to take a long time to settle...
Bill of Complaints. Most of the dust was kicked up by the Nixon Administration, which felt angered and betrayed by the failure of America's European allies to support the U.S. in backing Israel-and said so. To begin with, Washington was incensed by the fact that Prime Minister Edward Heath declined to let Britain propose an American-initiated cease-fire resolution in the United Nations. When the giant U.S. airlift to Israel began, several European countries pointedly told Washington that American transport planes could neither refuel in their territory, even at American airbases, nor fly over it. Portugal...
...General Motors reports a new process that reduces SO2 emissions by 90%. Tested successfully for 14 months in a pilot installation at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, Ohio, GM's process starts with a trap to take dust particles out of coal smoke. Then the gases are routed into a device called a scrubber, where they bubble through a caustic-soda solution; chemical reaction between the SO2 and the soda produces two salts, sodium sulfite and sodium sulfate, that are pumped from the scrubber in waste liquids into tanks. There, lime and calcium carbonate are added. The resulting calcium...
Kohoutek probably originated far beyond the outermost planet, where billions of comets are believed to orbit the sun. They were apparently born out of the same cloud of interstellar dust and gas that created the sun and the planets some 4.6 billion years ago, and have remained largely unchanged since. Occasionally, the tug of a nearby star pulls a comet into a far more elongated orbit, bringing it closer to the sun and making it visible from earth. Thus, as Kohoutek approaches, astronomers will have a rare opportunity to learn more about the primordial stuff out of which the solar...