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...retort has produced more than 4,000 bbl. of oil, can handle some 400 tons of rock a day. With a nest of such retorts, commercial production would be at least 20,000 bbl. a day. But that goal is five years off, warned Union President Albert C. Rubel. In arid Colorado, a big problem for industry is water. Though Union's experimental retort needs no water, the waxy shale crude does not flow well in a pipeline unless carried along by water, and the nearest source is the Colorado River 15 miles away. Even more important, Rubel thinks...
...agonizing hours wore on, the groggy, red-eyed diggers received atomic-age assistance. From the AEC's nearby Brookhaven Laboratories came a set of tempered-steel tubes (used as gamma-ray shields) that telescoped one inside the other like a nest of cups; they were trip-hammered into the loft. wall that separated Benny from his rescuers. At 7:32 p.m., 23 hours and 48 minutes after Benny had plunged down the well, a wiry Negro construction worker named Sam Woodson wormed through the narrow pipe and touched Benny's hand. It was cold as death. Then...
...gallantry, in fact, is the false note. Zuckmayer and Käutner have mocked up a marvelous illusion of life in the Nazi ruling circles at the turning point of the war. The scene, as they paint it, is a seething roach nest of military puritans, rat-eyed party fanatics and servile chimney barons, of endless work, nonstop parties, public arrogance, private Angst, Germanic sentiment and rotting will, of spies, lies and a dirty, interminable fight for personal power. And through the scene but somehow above it, like let's-pretend Valkyries, wanders a tribe of strangely ambivalent German...
...former secretary, and was declared the father of the secretary's twin girls. Yma sued for divorce. The action of Act II was not so clear, but Husband Vivanco feelingly declared that one day last week a couple of private detectives came to the $60,000 love nest, where Yma no longer lives, roughed him up and threatened to shoot him. Next day photographers and reporters were on hand when mink-coated Yma and three private eyes turned up looking for her orchid-and-white Cadillac convertible and a few other trifles. Yma sang a raucous duet in Spanish...
...Gazette was educational. And what is left of the child's fine art of doing nothing? "Many many hours of my childhood were spent in learning how to whistle . . . how to snap my fingers. In hanging from the branch of a tree. In looking at an ants' nest. In digging holes. Making piles. Tearing things down. Throwing rocks at things." He sees too many bored kids around now, and he makes a nice distinction: "Being bored is a judgment you make on yourself. Doing nothing is a state of being...