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With a double heat shield on an ICBM warhead, for example, the outer shield can be made to take the brunt of X-ray damage, leaving the inner shield to protect the warhead as it descends through the atmosphere. A neutron-blocking layer of paraffin or liquid hydrogen can prevent the uranium trigger from fissioning prematurely. Installation of more rugged electrical components and addition of bypass circuits reduce the possibility of damage from the surge of current caused by an electromagnetic pulse...
James H. Bedford, 73, a retired psychology professor dying of cancer, in Glendale, Calif., had decided years ago that he wanted his body preserved by freezing for later revival if possible. He had left $4,200 for a steel capsule and for liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at about 200° below zero centigrade. When Bedford died on Jan. 12, his physician, Dr. B. Renault Able, began to pack the body in ice. Members of the Cryonics Society of California arrived to help. They spent eight hours, sending out periodically for more ice, getting the body frozen solid...
Where are the go-go girls at the Boston Tea Party, the city's newest discotheque? They're up in the balcony behind powerful projectors, rocking little trays of oozing liquid in time with the live. On a distant screen, the highly magnified, undulating image sets the rhythm for the hundreds of melding figures below...
...Western-hit a 35-year high in December. The short-interest total began dropping-it was 2,000,000 shares lower at the beginning of last week-as the short sellers began covering themselves in a rising market. Buying also were mutual funds, which had kept about $3 billion liquid and ready during an uncertain autumn and now moved in with some of it to pick up favorites...
Uncommon Gyrations. The only common metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures, mercury often shows uncommon price gyrations-in response to floods, strikes, politics, foreign smuggling, or even occasional hijacking of mercury-loaded trucks in the U.S. From a twelve-year low of $189 a flask in 1963, the New York price of mercury soared to a record $740 in June 1965, then sank to $330 a year later after the Federal Government began selling surplus metal from its strategic stockpile. Last week the price bounced as usual-from a Tuesday low of $480 to a Thursday high...