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...moments as fiery and explosive as a bomb rack loaded with napalm. Put together from two Satevepost articles (by James Michener and Commander Harry Burns), the film takes a documentary look at a carrier-based jet squadron engaged in daily and seemingly profitless strafings of a North Korean railway junction. But when it struggles with its own pet moral problem ("No man is an island," etc.), the pace rapidly falls off from jet propulsion to a soporific amble...
...inch with minor impurities. The top surface is treated with boron, whose atom has one less electron in its outer shell than silicon has; the bottom layer is treated with arsenic, whose atom has one more electron in its outer shell than silicon has. When light strikes near the junction of the two layers, it pushes electrons to the bottom surface, pulls "holes" (electronless gaps) to the top surface, creating a difference in voltage. The current formed is channeled off through wires...
With a string of uranium mines and one mill already operating at capacity in Colorado's plateau country, Climax announced that it was moving its uranium subsidiary headquarters from New York to Grand Junction, Colo., to be closer to actual operations, making it easier to expand into uranium. Though the company netted only $428,248 (4.4% of total profits) from uranium in fiscal 1953, it is prospecting for more lodes, will build new ore-processing plants wherever needed...
...most of Bhowani Junction'?, running time Victoria gets switched on to branch lines while seeking the main track of her allegiance and affections...
...dealing with men and more effective in dealing with women. In his arms Victoria finds "peace" and "ecstasy." But since the colonel is an Englishman, that is not enough. At novel's end, Victoria goes back to her bumbling Anglo-Indian and her own people at Bhowani Junction, where "the lines spread out to every Indian horizon for them...