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...kept in uneasy check by elaborate control systems and cooled by liquid hydrogen with a temperature close to absolute zero. Last week it was given no cooling at all, and the controls that kept its reaction in check were arranged so they could be removed in a fraction of a second. Test Director Keith Boyer hoped that Kiwi would get hot enough to vaporize itself entirely...
...could so many people possibly have been so deluded? "Nobody on the Republican side told them otherwise," said Welch. "'There were very few campaigners, even among the Conservatives, who took the trouble and had the courage to tell the people even a fraction of the truth...
...nation's college population will double in the next 15 years, the doctoral output of American universities will not keep pace. In addition, he said, "only about half of future doctor's degree recipients will find their way into teaching, and they will be no more than a fraction of the number needed...
...especially serious setback because 200,000 Negro votes have been registered in the past year. Chicago Negroes have traditionally voted Democratic, and Percy's inability to offer them an attractive alternative to Kerner in a year when Negroes are generally wary of Republicans apparently dooms him to a smaller fraction of the vote than he had anticipated...
...like the bargain rates. Most third market firms keep on hand an inventory of widely traded stocks (Weeden's inventory of 210 listed stocks amounts to about $12 million), which they offer to customers at a flat price based on the exchanges' last quotation plus a small fraction of a point-which nearly always amounts to less than a regular commission...