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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Parsifal, with Svanholm, London, Hotter, Vichegonov, Varnay...
Except for such demonstrations as the 1932 Cockcroft-Walton experiment, the only way to get a fusion reaction is to raise the temperature. The hotter a material gets, the faster its atoms move. If it gets hot enough, they may hit one another so hard that they combine into larger atoms, yielding the energy of fusion...
Ordinary-high temperatures, attainable by chemical means, are not nearly high enough, but the center of an exploding uranium-fission bomb (more than 50,000,000° C.) is as hot or hotter than the interior of the sun. Before the first atom bomb exploded, physicists were speculating as to whether atom bombs might serve as "detonators" to start fusion explosions...
...jump, for a new commercial speed record. While American was hanging up its record, United Air Lines impatiently took delivery of its first DC-7 so that it, too, could get into the transcontinental race. At stake is the coast-to-coast luxury trade, and the competition gets hotter with every flight...
PREMIUM-gasoline competition is getting hotter. The Texas Co. is putting on the market Top Octane Sky Chief Super-Charged, which it claims will increase efficiency, cut down carbon deposits and extend engine life as much as 60% through use of a special compound (Petrox...