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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be nice to use pure hydrogen, but this is impractical because hydrogen is a gas that cannot be kept in the liquid state without extreme difficulty. Next best is to "liquefy" hydrogen by making it combine with some other element to form a conveniently liquid compound. Kerosene is such a liquid, but it contains too much low-energy carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Exotic Fuels | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Fortunately, nature has provided a chemical element, boron, which can be forced with some difficulty to improve on carbon's performance. Boron has a high heat of combustion (25,000 B.T.U. per lb.), and it forms compounds that contain more energy-rich hydrogen than most hydrocarbons do. The heat of combustion of diborane (B2H6), for instance, is 31,000 B.T.U. per lb., almost twice as good as kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Exotic Fuels | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who Said Garbage? | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Luneville in the French duchy of Lorraine. Historians guess that La Tour went to Rome as a young man, learned there the technique of Caravaggio's dramatically spotlighted paintings. Back home he refined his work to make light itself not only a dramatic highlight but the modeling element and dramatic center of his painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Attic | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...command the southern reaches of the Communist empire. Everywhere, Radford argues publicly and privately for the alltime-peacetime-high defense and foreign military assistance budget of $43.3 billion (58? in every U.S. tax dollar) designed to give muscle to U.S. commitments to 43 friendly nations as an essential element of U.S. security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man Behind the Power | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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