Word: heating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much Damage? The timetable could be upset by the extent of damage to furnaces during the long shutdown. In some cases, the interior brick linings have contracted and furnace roofs have fallen in. Steelmen waited anxiously for signs of other damage as the heat built up to 3,000°. What may hold repairs to a minimum is the fact that U.S. Steel, Inland and others kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until...
...Gaulle's triumph was one in the eye for Harold Macmillan, who, in the heat of the recent British election campaign, airily proclaimed that the summit date would be set "within a few days." It was a setback for Ike, who had publicly expressed (as had Khrushchev) a preference for a summit before the end of this year. The quarrel over dates reflected a deeper difference among the Western allies: a disagreement over what summit talks could and should be expected to achieve...
...that temperature, the hydrogen is hotter than the center of an exploding nuclear bomb. But the gas is spread so thin between the galaxies (fewer than ten atoms per cubic yard of space) that there is no appreciable heating effect on objects it surrounds. The heat merely makes it expand like any hot, unconfined gas; and since it fills the whole universe, the universe as a whole expands...
What about the galaxies, which do not expand but merely move farther apart? Gold and Hoyle believe that great clouds of the hot cosmological gas radiate some of their heat away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it reaches the critical point where gravitational attraction between its gas particles is greater than their tendency to fly apart. Then the great cloud collapses, forming a galaxy or a cluster of galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars. The galaxies, being immersed in the hot gas, continue to move...
...opening words of this book-"How can you stand it?"-bear witness to Author McCarthy's candor. She itemizes the disadvantages in which Florence is rich: the noise, the occasional rudeness, the oppressive summer heat, the lack of nighttime pleasures, the daytime drabness. It is true, she says, that because of the frightening traffic, "Many of the famous monuments have become, quite literally, invisible, for lack of a spot from which they can be viewed with safety." And it is maddeningly true that "As for the museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal...