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Ordered to stop about 500 yards from the bank, John Kuhel saw a jeepload of U.S. military police rounding the corner, and decided on a desperate chance. He raced his motor, pulled the wheel hard left and let out the clutch, hoping to knock Wally off his seat. Recovering his balance almost instantly, Wally instead aimed his gun at Kuhel's head. Two pistol shots rang out. The MPs swarmed about the Kuhel car. Instead of a dead banker, they found a dead gangster-and, in the back seat of the car, a small boy holding in his hand...
...energy, one pound of U-235 producing as many calories as 1,500 tons of coal. A modest amount of U-235 could, so far as energy is concerned, propel a commodious space cruiser to the moon and back. But energy is not enough. A uranium-burning rocket motor would have no products of combustion to shoot out of its tail pipe, and without some massive material to jettison, the motor would have no thrust...
...Ionic Motor. More elaborate ways of using nuclear fuel in rockets have been dreamed up by the imaginative engineers who plan for space travel. One of their proposals is a nuclear reactor running a conventional electrical generator. The current from it ionizes atoms of some convenient element and expels them from the tail pipe. An "ionic motor" of this sort can run, theoretically, almost forever on a cupful of uranium...
FOOTSORE MAILMEN will get welcome relief. Post Office is calling for bids for 1,500 three-wheeled motor scooters (painted red, white and blue) for postmen in residential areas where houses are widely spaced. Also coming, for carriers whose routes are not quite so long: 2,000 bicycles, 6,000 aluminum caddy carts...
...these controls, has the Fed clamped down too hard on credit? Most bankers say that companies with solid earnings records and established lines of credit will have no difficulty raising money (though at a higher price) for productive uses, e.g., to expand plants, construct office buildings, etc. Ford Motor Co., for example, raised $250 million for plant expansion last month, but had to pay 4% for the 20-year loan. However, some banks are so short of money that they turn over many of their loans to insurance companies, the last great reservoir of private U.S. capital. But even some...