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...water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive materials...
...over the low hatching rate of his chickens, ran independent tests and found that the fatty tissue of the birds contained up to 40 p.p.m. of PCBs (the federal limit for poultry is 5 p.p.m.). The contamination was traced to a Wilmington, N.C., fish-meal plant where PCBs were leaking from a pipe in a heating system into the meal. Officials were dismayed to learn that the leak had gone undiscovered for nearly two months and that 13,000 tons of tainted feed had been sent to 64 customers in twelve Southern and Midwestern states...
Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, received notice Wednesday from federal agents that he must again submit to questioning by the jury which is investigating Daniel Ellsberg '52 and the Pentagon papers leak. He will appear next Wednesday...
Boredom and resentment were heightened by shabby living conditions. Many units are garrisoned in barracks once used by Hitler's Wehrmacht, some built in Bismarck's day. Heat and hot water are inadequate, plaster peels, pipes leak, and toilets overflow. Nearby Bundeswehr (West German army) troops, meanwhile, live comfortably in post-World War II quarters...
...case, Paul C. Vincent, travelled to Los Angeles to interrogate Ellsberg's in-laws and other associates before the grand jury there. These sessions turned up nothing. Then, returning to Boston, Vincent initiated subpoenas against several academics who are widely thought to have had nothing to do with the leak of the secret study; the three who have so far been called to appear have all contested their subpoenas...