Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motor nearly this big had ever been fired before, but the fuel burned so evenly, and its outside layers were such a serviceable insulator, that all parts of the steel casing remained at air temperature. The nozzle was meant to erode slightly as the corrosive exhaust gases raced out at supersonic speed. But after its throat cooled, the big nozzle looked almost new; about half an inch had been tooled smoothly away as if by a delicate grinding machine. If X rays show no internal damage, the nozzle can be used again...
...this respect, it is living cars rather than dead ones that are under scrutiny. Johnson served notice that he intends to institute discussions among auto industry officials and "other interested groups" about what can be done to eliminate the exhaust pipe's assault on the lungs (see SCIENCE...
...present about carbon monoxide except to stay out of heavy traffic. Greater Los Angeles has almost no transportation except private cars. "No filters work against carbon monoxide," says Haagen-Smit, "and closing the windows may be dangerous." He reports that in one tightly closed test car with a faulty exhaust, the interior carbon monoxide jumped to 200 p.p.m. He hopes a little improvement will come next fall from new cars equipped with devices to reduce carbon monoxide in their exhausts...
Worst affected by exhaust fumes are the eager tailgaters who cause the many-car pile-ups for which the free ways are famous. "The way to get the biggest dose," says Haagen-Smit, "is to keep as close as one can to the car ahead of you. The fellow who does that gets the most carbon monoxide, also the most lead, oxides of nitrogen, carcinogens, everything...
Western in garb and still gaunt enough to wear his West Point trousers, Hurd loathes the cliches of Hollywood westerns. He is no complacent optimist, recalling the Wyethian admonition that life ends before man can exhaust it. "A painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer...