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Despite the humid 90° weather, more than 2,000 townsfolk had excitedly waited out the conference. Their hurrahs drew the normally reticent Russian out of his car after it had gone just a few hundred yards. Upstaging Johnson for the nonce, he shook hands, waved and cried: "I would like to thank you! There are many beautiful and wonderful things to be done!" Then the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers headed down Route 322 for the 111-mile drive back to New York. He spent the day of Summit recess visiting Niagara Falls. Johnson headed for a political...
...Viet Nam, the ammonia is produced by groups of perspiring men. Urea, a component of perspiration, is attacked by bacteria on the skin and decomposed into odorless carbon dioxide and ammonia gas. Thus the air in the vicinity of a large group of men-especially in hot and humid climates-contains high concentrations of ammonia. To detect the ammonia, the E63 scoops up air, passes it over a wick saturated with hydrochloric acid and into a humidifying chamber. If the air contains any ammonia, a fog forms, changing the amount of light shining on a photoelectric cell and varying...
...single U.S. patrol, a thin line of 1st Division infantrymen, moved warily through the jungles of Tay Ninh province one humid morning last week. Deep in Viet Cong territory, the lonely Americans posed a tempting target. Finally, at high noon, the Viet Cong yielded to the temptation. Under cover of a furious mortar assault, they attacked in force. Almost immediately, U.S. artillery that had been covering the patrol's advance opened up on the hitherto-hidden Viet Cong mortar emplacements. Within minutes, Allied planes were bombing and strafing the enemy attackers. Besieged by shells and 40 lethal air strikes...
MRDC men are also hard at work devising new techniques for transmitting radio signals in Southeast Asia, where both the dense, humid forests and the magnetic equatorial belt severely limit both range and reliability. Radio engineers have already made tests to determine the type of antenna that will operate most efficiently under these conditions and are scattering very high-frequency radio waves over the forest canopy to distant field receivers...
...long, bitter Kurdish war, an agreement is one thing, honoring it another. Twice in the past three years similar truces vanished in the hot, humid air because both sides could not agree on the fine print. Though the new agreement goes into more detail than the older truces, only time will tell whether it has a chance of success...