Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A Negro policeman from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a Mississippi backwater town by the local police chief (Rod Steiger), who eventually discovers that a good cop is a good cop, regardless of color...
...water drinkable, and contributes to lush vegetable growth near the small (pop. 5,000), arid fishing town of Puerto Penasco. Heart of the system is a 60-kw. Caterpillar diesel generator. But unlike other diesel-powered systems, in which about two-thirds of the fuel energy is wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated coolant water into a heat exchanger. Sea water pumped through the exchanger is heated to 160° F., and then passed into a tower evaporator. About 10% of the heated water is vaporized, condensed into pure water...
Fringe Benefits. Still at a temperature of 90° F., the unvaporized sea water from the evaporator tower is used to control temperature and humidity levels in nearby greenhouses. Even the exhaust gases, consisting largely of carbon dioxide, are put to work. From the heat exchanger, they are pumped through a scrubber, which rids them of harmful sulfur dioxide, and into the greenhouses, where they provide the proper level of carbon dioxide for ideal plant growth. "Like the old joke about the efficiency of meat-packing plants," says Hodges, "we are even using the squeal of the pig by tapping...
...Suit. Like almost everything else aboard during the January holocaust, the Gemini space suits worn by the astronauts burned, as interior temperatures rose to 1,500° F. To withstand such heat, the nylon outer covering of the Apollo suit has been replaced by Beta cloth-an advanced form of glass fiber produced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Backing up the new fabric are 14 layers of fire-resistant material. Even if they were caught in an on-board inferno, the Apollo astronauts would have several minutes of protection while wearing the new suit. Big gest problem posed...
...HEAT OF THE NIGHT. In Mississippi, two policemen, one a Negro (Sidney Poitier), the other a white man (Rod Steiger), join forces to solve a murder in this subtle and meticulous study that breaks with the black-white stereotype...