Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet but tense since the militia withdrew in August, Henderson is divided between the dogged strikers and the rest of the city-which just wishes the strike would go away. High School Principal Frederick R. Kesler believes "a lot of things have been said in this town that will take a long time to heal," worries that the strike may erect a permanent wall of hatred between children from the town and the mill villages. Scripture-quoting West Virginia-born Boyd Payton, 51, Textile Workers' director for the Carolinas, keeps his remarkably loyal Bible-belt flock together with reminders...
FRANCE The Grand March Like the high drama that it is, the Fifth Republic of France has its commanding star, but it also has a supporting cast around Charles de Gaulle that is determined to maintain the mystical sense of grandeur. "We will try to accomplish the dream of France," declared Novelist Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux, after taking over as Minister of State in Charge of Cultural Affairs, "to give back life to its past genius, to give life to its present genius, and to welcome the genius of the world." Last week as Malraux rose to explain...
...experts on the scene, pleased by the general economic improvement, nonetheless are disturbed by Formosa's high production and consumption of consumer items, which discourages capital formation. "Formosans are consuming too much, saving too little," says one U.S. expert. Formosa now has a population of more than 10 million and one of the highest rates of population increase (3.6%) in the world. Even with heavy expenditure on land reclamation and irrigation, Formosa's currently well-fed citizens will either have to cut down their eating or start importing food...
Avco is working on two MHD generators. One of them will burn coal in a stream of compressed, preheated air. While passing through the flame, the air gets hotter, expands and rushes out of the furnace at high speed. A small amount of potassium chloride fed into it increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across...
...with a nuclear reactor. In this case the gas will probably be argon or helium, laced with cesium to make it more conductive. It will circulate through the reactor, then through the generator and back to the reactor again. This system will have to wait for the development of high-temperature reactor cores, but Project Rover, the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear-rocket program, has shown that the prospects of this are promising...