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...PUBLIC. No previous postwar steel shutdown has been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women...
...each end the magnetic field is given added strength to form a magnetic "mirror," which reflects back the charged particles as they try to escape, thus sealing the gas in a magnetic bottle. A bank of 99 condensers, kept in the basement since condensers sometimes blow up, sends a jolt of 4,000,000 amperes thundering through the coil, heating the gas up to around 20 million degrees. Dr. Kolb reported that his machine had confined plasma and kept it stable at this temperature for twelve microseconds. During this period, bursts of neutrons poured out of the device. "This agrees...
...nine miles up, his engine quit with a grating, rasping jolt. Rankin hopefully eyed the slumping panel needles, tried vainly to coax juice from an emergency electrical generator to rouse his radio, kept his aircraft from nosing over into supersonic speed. But only for an instant; a hundred battle missions and a bail-out in enemy fire over Korea had honed his survival instincts, and Rankin knew the choice. To his wingman, Lieut. Herbert Nolan, he snapped a message over his faltering transmitter: "Power failure. May have to eject." To himself he said: "This is going to be a pretty...
...highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they laugh...
...Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve "breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then?'' Answered Reid: "I always pray...