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...Ionic Motor. More elaborate ways of using nuclear fuel in rockets have been dreamed up by the imaginative engineers who plan for space travel. One of their proposals is a nuclear reactor running a conventional electrical generator. The current from it ionizes atoms of some convenient element and expels them from the tail pipe. An "ionic motor" of this sort can run, theoretically, almost forever on a cupful of uranium...
...high noon one day this week, an invisible hand parted the red velvet draperies at the front of the U.S. Supreme Court's magnificently plain chamber. Through openings in the draperies and past the gleaming marble Ionic columns stepped nine men robed in black. Eight seated themselves in the black leather chairs at the long mahogany bench; the ninth went with the clerk of the court to a desk beside the bench. After a brief opening ceremony, Clerk Harold B. Willey turned to the man at his side and administered an oath: "I, Earl Warren, do solemnly swear that...
Since 1910 the committee has offered an average of 30 courses a year to as many as 1,950 students one term. One of the first courses on Ionic Theory has now given way to the study of atomic energy in the Nature and Growth of the Physical Sciences...
...musicians, during the day teachers, carpenters, painters and salesmen, went on playing for their own pleasure at the Ionic Temple. Before long, so many people dropped in to listen that the players decided to start giving concerts. They gave them Scandinavian style. During intermissions the musicians would step down from the stage, mingle with the guests. After the concert, there would be coffee, cakes, sometimes a dance. Over the years the orchestra grew in size from 36 to 75; when they got a regular conductor, Vienna-born Eduard Werner, they began to grow in proficiency. In recent years their weekly...
...nation," cried Soekarno, "and we pray that we may live as a single free nation . . . We want to build a strong nation, prosperous and orderly ... I appeal to you all to show our hospitality to our foreign guests, including the Dutch." As Soekarno turned, walking between the graceful Ionic columns into the executive mansion, one foreign diplomat waved in the direction of the crowds and said to a colleague: "Could the Dutch ever have held this, in the face of that...