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...energetic environment valve in which the Fullers flux-ate when Bucky is at home is definitely non-Dymaxion and infra-geodesic: a two-room Queens apartment with bath and kitchenette such as might have served a young couple beginning married life modestly in 1912. The living room is furnished in a combination of advanced geometric shapes and Chinese prints; there are some books, a head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling...
...that Christians can count on the Christian Democratic Union Party to lead them "to unity in political action"). Further on, the Communist line gets clearer. Samples: ¶"Progressive Christians have all been moved by the conviction that Christianity cannot be static but must be in a state of holy flux . . . [They] hold it as only natural ... to remove antiquated forms and look for new ones." ¶"Without being a follower of dialectical materialism, the Christian must recognize as correct the foundation of economic analysis in Marxism and Leninism." ¶"Socialism today gives the Christian the best chance to fulfill...
More important is what happens in the blanket of U-238. The fissioning U-235 in the core sends out a dense flux of highspeed neutrons. They are absorbed by the blanket, turning some of its U-238 into plutonium. Since this is also fissionable, it can be extracted chemically and used as fuel in the heat-giving core...
...this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed...
When the boron had soaked through the woman's system, including the brain tumor that was killing her, the doctors placed her head near Brookhaven's high-flux pile. While the doctors watched from a platform, the pile operator threw the controls and a stream of neutrons from the pile shot through her skull, aimed at the tumor site. For 17 minutes the boron in the tumor was turned, atom by atom, into a source of instantaneous alpha radiation...