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...work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...
...clinics for 1,500,000 West Coast members. One of his most notable projects-and notable failures -was making automobiles. He and Joseph W. Frazer bought a surplus bomber plant in 1945 with a Government loan of $44 million, began turning out Kaisers, Frazers and, later, Henry Js. They sold well until postwar supplies of new cars caught up with demand: then, competition from Detroit's Big Three put Kaiser-Frazer out of the auto business. Kaiser repaid his loan, as always, but lost $52 million in seven years. He did better building Jeeps, having bought out Willys-Overland...
...Js and Jamie were once purists, but Columbia Records has succeeded in getting them to do noncommercial albums, which have sold well. A third is due in the fall. Assorted nightclubs have been offering them $7,000 a week. But they really prefer the oratorios of industry...
...talk with the murderer out of curiosity and continues the conversations because he hopes to write his master's thesis in form of a novel. The device is awkward, and the frequent asides to the reader are irritating. A scene in which the young man fancies he js in communication with the shade of Millhouser's mother is as embarrassing as any in recent fiction...
...getting poorer, and the gap between have and have-not is widening. "Whether you talk of a Communist state like the Soviet Union, which has become an industrialized state, or of many non-Communist states that are highly industrialized, in the final analysis they worship the same go(js-the god of industrialization, the god of the machine," and it was up to those present to help solve the economic problems of Asia, because "if we don't, somebody else will...