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...have had one man to keep them informed and another to keep them laughing; one for work, the other for relaxation. Harry Truman talked policy with Clark Clifford and played poker with General Harry Vaughan; Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams for the heavy duty and George Allen for the lighter moments; John Kennedy learned from Ted Sorensen and kidded with Dave Powers...
...controlling fusion, producing energy from nuclear fission is relatively simple. In fission-which occurs in A-bomb explosions and powers today's nuclear plants-a speeding neutron is used to split the atomic nucleus of a heavy element like uranium into the nuclei of one or more lighter elements. In the process, more neutrons are given off. But the mass of the resulting nuclei and neutrons is somewhat less than the mass of the original nucleus; the missing matter-as predicted by the famed Einstein equation E=mc2-has been converted into energy. Basically, all that is required...
Carlo had them now, and he knew it. As soon as he started to talk about "the right kinda girls" Mrs. Lou had put on her lighthouse smile, and even Lou's neck grew a few shades lighter. Carlo's parents hadn't even let him see "Return of the Wild" when he was seven because the local Catholic newspaper said it had some questionable "female scenes" in it, so he knew how his parents thought about "the right kind...
...lighter vein, Vice Mayor Edward T. Sullivan recalled the early careers of the distinguished seven, telling how Leverett Saltonstall '14 had decided after losing the lieutenant governorship that he might have to content himself with a permanent position as an alderman in Newton...
...shrink the length and weight of its 1977 models (TIME, Sept. 13) and figures that retooling for the more drastic changes needed by 1985 will cost several times that. The expense, no doubt, will be passed on to buyers, raising another question: will they accept higher prices for shorter, lighter, less powerful, slower-starting cars? One possible clue is the renewed popularity of imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel saving and weight reduction. For example, front-wheel-drive systems already are standard...