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...nuclear reactors had been closed down all day; deep in the massive structure of graphite blocks, one or more canisters of uranium had grown red hot and burst open. Apparently the uranium, heated by its fierce radioactivity, was burning in an oldfashioned, chemical way by combining with oxygen in the air that is blown past to cool...
Soap-Bubble Film. The density of an atmosphere detected in this way depends partly on what gases it contains, and the radio waves give no such information. Elsmore points out that the moon's gravitation is too feeble to hold comparatively light gases like the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Any gas molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping...
...warming suit over his figure-hugging space suit, dumped some ballast (including two spent batteries), and climbed back to safety. An hour before sunrise, he radioed a plea to the ground: "I've got to get some sleep!" Permission was granted; the gondola, conditioned by pressurized oxygen, helium and nitrogen, was awesomely hushed. "It's like no earthly quiet," he reported. "On earth there are always traffic sounds and dogs barking or the wind just whistling. But in space there's nothing but quiet." He leaned his head forward against his chest-pack parachute and promptly dropped...
...Precautions. To be on guard, the American Hospital Association advised all hospitals to inoculate their staffs as soon as possible, and (though there is no curative treatment for the influenza itself) to lay in ample stocks of antibiotics, oxygen and other supplies to combat such frequent flu complications as pneumonia. Toughest recommendation of all: hospitals should lay down firm admission policies before the epidemic strikes, announce that uncomplicated cases of flu cannot be admitted...
...least increase its sales. And for those whose profits dipped, special conditions were often as much to blame as the inflationary cost squeeze. Union Carbide Corp. laid part of its 2% profit cut (to $34,147,267 for the quarter) to a 15-week strike in some of its oxygen-producing plants. Continental Can Co. said it had anticipated a 5% first-half earnings decline because of stockpile buying in anticipation of a steel strike and the early maturing of some crops. General Foods Corp. suffered a profit slump because of a drop in the price of coffee and frozen...