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...project for which the Middletown, Conn., plant was first built has been abandoned; U.S. authorities no longer feel driven to solve the enormously difficult design problems of a nuclear-powered aircraft. But the Pratt & Whitney engineers who sweated over the complexities of the atom plane's engine are still determined to get some sort of nuclear reactor aloft. They are working for AEC now, and last week the commission allowed them to give a glimpse of their top-secret labs...
White-Hot Metal. The most striking Middletown project is SNAP-50, a lightweight nuclear-power reactor designed to operate in space. Incorporating technical know-how gained on the airplane-engine project, this SNAP (for Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power) contains liquid lithium and gaseous potassium, tricky fluids that would drive most engine designers to seek liquid solace. Molten lithium is frightening stuff; it corrodes almost anything, and bursts into flame on contact with oxygen. Gaseous potassium, while not quite so bad, is hot and explosive...
...Middletown is not ready to claim complete triumph for its frenetic schedule. Still, Dr. Rollins says that Middletown has at least won that rare school prize, "a climate in which change is considered a potential ally, not a threatening enemy...
...experiment at Middletown High School, near Newport, R.I., is just beginning its second year. Anywhere else. Middletown's 1,271 youngsters, mostly children of employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney...
JOHN WISE Middletown, Ohio...