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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaporizing. At the same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...
...immediately forced to cut their size. At week's end they pooled their ink reserves, but could hardly hope to keep publishing much longer. And with publishers and strikers reluctant to compromise ("This," said an official of the Ministry of Labor, "is the most intractable strike we have known in years"), England faced the melancholy prospect of a near-complete newspaper blackout, with only two daily papers likely to continue publishing. The exceptions: the Manchester Guardian and London's Communist Daily Worker, which have ample reserves...
...road maps, the new superhighway that curls through the pleasant woodlands surrounding Boston is known routinely as Route 128. But to U.S. industry, it is known more romantically as the Space Highway. Amid the landscaped woods of the industrial parks along commuter-clogged 128 are tucked scores of low, angular buildings bearing science-fiction names: Trans-Sonics, Tracerlab, Microwave, Dynametrics. These plants add up to the biggest and fastest-growing science-based complex* in the U.S., and provide the nation's most impressive proof of the vast new industrial potential of the electronics and space age. Beyond that, they...
...first companies to utilize the area's resident brainpower is now big, well-known and a darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly...
...wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports her account of the rape. But the medical examiner finds no physical evidence that the woman was violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender; she had acquired her bruises at the hands of her jealous husband, who had beaten the truth out of her and then rushed off to kill her lover...