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...closely guarded technical area of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is a building on the mysteriously named DP Site. In one of its rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...
With the frazzled stare of a gal who wants to wash that fiber right out of her hair, svelte Capital Hostess Gwen Cafritz unwoolled herself after posing implausibly as Santa at a benefit. Supposedly a surprise to the guests, Gwen's gambit had been detected by ear-to-the-martini-tray Columnist George Dixon, who ungallantly told all in the Washington Post and Times Herald the day before...
BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...
...Carte. A portable gasoline station for shopping-center parking lots was demonstrated by American Petrofina Inc. in Oklahoma City. The battery-powered, 10½-ft.-long cart pumps two grades of gas from two tanks with a 300-gal. capacity, sells oil, dispenses air for tires, water for batteries and radiators...
Business in rebel country is nearly dead. The 'Esso distributor in Santiago, who used to sell 2,000,000 gal. of gas monthly, now sells 250,000; the Pepsi-Cola, Coca Cola and Canada Dry plants operate only two or three days a month. Bacardi Rum's main plant, which used to produce 144,000 bottles a day. last week closed for the first time since 1862. Eggs that once cost 4? apiece are now 10?: most food prices are up at least 40%. Holguin (pop. 82,000) has had no electricity for more than a fortnight...