Word: heating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweating out a steaming Washington summer and the last hours of the 85th Congress, the U.S. Senate began to feel the heat. Last week, while dozens of important bills awaited Capitol Hill attention, the Senate managed to waste a full day in noisy debate over the year's silliest issue. Cause of the feckless fight: a report that the Defense Department was subsidizing studies about what sort of surrender terms the U.S. should request when and if it gets conquered by Russia...
...miles over the Atlantic, pictures of its virtually blunt nose seemed strange to the streamline-minded. But current Atlas and Thor noses are likely to stay blunt for good reason. Developed by General Electric, they are made mainly of heavy copper, which helpfully spreads and diffuses the heat. But the main design trick is to keep the nose from ever getting too hot. The bluntness creates a shielding shock wave out front that cuts the velocity of the air actually hitting the nose to subsonic speed, then slows the missile to around 500 m.p.h. Instead of evaporating in more than...
Despite its proneness to bluntness, the Air Force last month successfully fired a Thor-Able missile with a faster-flying new nose of the type developed by the Army on its Jupiter IRBM. This one is more classically sharp. Instead of absorbing and avoiding heat, it removes heat by "ablation." Technique: coating the nose surface with materials that melt or vaporize while absorbing heat, yet leave the material underneath cool and undamaged. The best materials seem to be polymer plastics, mixed with fibers of glass...
...Nature of Heat. One of the greatest exponents of ayurveda is Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, Dr. Sampurnanand. A graduate of Allahabad University, Sampurnanand (who has no first name) majored in mathematics, physics and chemistry, rates the title of doctor only on the strength of honorary degrees collected from fawning provincial universities. Sampurnanand dabbles in ayurveda himself, often prescribing ayurvedic remedies for friends. Four years ago his government set up the State Ayurvedic College in Lucknow, dedicated to the proposition that students should learn both the ayurvedic and Western medical systems...
...scurrying trucks about 50,000 bu. a day. Now they stepped up their pace so briskly that the trucks had to race to keep up with them, by day's end had harvested 61,340 bu. to set the world's record. Hatless in the 90° heat, Krylov ignored the official interpreter, barraged Campbell with questions in English. Both Russians tested the chaff spewed from the combines for any wheat kernels that might have been missed, rode the combines, fingered the dirt and the grain, expressed admiration for U.S. conservation methods. When told that Tom Campbell...