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...quantity of oxygen he would enjoy at sea level. During launching and reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will be filtered, probably through lithium hydride, to remove carbon dioxide and excess water vapor from breath and sweat. It will also be cooled and deodorized...
...Performing, a Young, a Proud and a Happy Mother, and a Family of Three, one of whom delightfully defied gravity in its mother's arms. In stone, he shaped a tender and telling Day Dreamer in white alabaster, a dark and moving image of Naomi and Ruth in lithium stone, a deeply sensual, semi-abstract Reflection in pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers; each in its own way celebrated Sculptor Gross's feeling...
...intrigued his brethren everywhere (TIME, July 25). Present atomic reactors all use the fission process: splitting nuclei of the heavier atoms, e.g., uranium or plutonium, to produce a controllable reaction. But fusion, used solely in the H-bomb, involves binding the nuclei of far more plentiful, lighter atoms (deuterium, lithium, etc.) under tremendous heat to produce an explosion...
...Chemical compound of lithium's light isotope, Li and hydrogen's middle isotope...
What happens next is known only in the innermost nuclear circles, if it is known there. Some outside guessers think that the reaction, once started, will be self-sustaining. The nuclear fire will sweep through the lithium deuteride like a flame through dry excelsior. Others believe that the reaction will have to be stimulated, continuously or intermittently, by energy from outside...