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...behalf of the bourbon drinkers of America I protest. Is this spiritless, chalky liquid more worthy of the presidential accolade than my beloved bourbon-or wine, or beer, or even sake...
This time the trouble was traced to a layer of insulation in the Atlas-D's giant fuel tank (65 ft. high; 10 ft. in diameter). The insulation had somehow absorbed some kerosene-like fuel, which is mixed with liquid oxygen when the missile is fired. Engineers set about correcting the fault, and space scientists got ready to start the complex preflight tests all over again. Scheduled date for the next...
Life on earth, Firsoff points out in the British magazine Discovery, is based on the reaction of carbon compounds in water solution. But liquid water is not entirely necessary for life. Jupiter is apparently well stocked with ammonia (NH3), and Firsoff argues that the ammonia would be as satisfactory a solvent as water for supporting life...
...Instead of oxydizing food to liberate energy as earth's animals do, Jovian animals would combine it with nitrogen, and the final product would be cyanogen (CN)2, a gas that is violently poisonous to life on earth. "Jovian animals," says Astronomer Firsoff, "could breathe nitrogen and drink liquid ammonia. Whether they do remains to be seen...
...lets scenery overbear significance. But the sense persists that something serious is going on, thanks importantly to Actor Lukas, who gives a remarkably evocative imitation of the Wise Old Man of Zu rich, the late Carl Jung; thanks principally to Actor Robards. Robards has all the quick intelligence and liquid charm the author wrote into his hero, but he has something more. He has eyes that loom behind the easy smile and graceful chatter with a strangely disturbing expression, the expression of a dying man who sees quite clearly, as his whole life flashes before his eyes, that...