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...Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S. Frank Knox, who heard Buie's yell...
Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
...whose fuel rods are suspended under 25 ft. of water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding on resin and felt in the water purifying system...
...normally divide every 20 minutes or so, this meant that radiation was killing only about as many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen equivalent physical) in an eight-hour day, which is 10,000 times the dose that is fatal...
...MARVIN E. MAGUIRE Fowler...