Word: nuclear
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Primeval Reversal. On the other hand, such celestial bodies as quasars appear to emit enormous quantities of energy that probably could not be produced by nuclear reactions alone. In some cases, Alfvén says, "total annihilation of matter and antimatter may be the only possible energy source." The sudden release of great amounts of energy from a supernova, for example, has never been satisfactorily explained. It might well be caused by the collision of antimatter and matter stars...
...benign nuclear war is being fought in Europe - a battle over the $500 million-a-year market for power reactors.Western Europe has already outdistanced the U.S. in the number of nuclear power installations (29 v. 12), but that is just the beginning. Europe has decided for the future to invest more in nuclear power than in any other means of producing electricity, is on the threshold of making major purchases of equipment. Such U.S. giants as General Electric and Westinghouse, which won an early beachhead for their reactors, are now being strongly challenged by big equipment makers in Britain, Germany...
Francon feels that U.S. policy is often at variance with France's interest Granting Germany Indirect control over nuclear weapons, for example, would strengthern a nation officially "still at way with France," he noted...
Odegaard added strong departments of genetics and nuclear engineering, strengthened Washington's already respected schools of fisheries, forestry and Far Eastern studies. This week a new $3,000,000 oceanographic vessel for the university is en route from Boston; later it will explore the bottom of the Bering Strait. Washington's medical school is now so respected that 75% of Harvard's 1964 medical graduates applied for internships in Seattle. Enrollment has grown to 25,000. Odegaard has raised admission standards for liberal-arts students and has sharply upgraded undergraduate instruction to catch up to strong graduate...
...relentless stream of splenetic essays and novels, Philip Wylie has profitably lambasted Mom, Pop, the common man, the businessman, the scientific man, sexy advertising, and American apathy in the face of potential nuclear disaster. Now he reports his latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist...