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Gamma rays kill all coliform bacteria in the water, which is then filtered and scrubbed clean of particles. The result is as clear, pure and tasteless as distilled water. Dr. David R. Woodbridge, a physicist and one of the method's inventors, says that the process can be used in medium-sized cities and would cost householders about $3.50 per month more than they are now paying for fresh water. If necessary, tasty additives could be introduced. Presumably, a dash of DDT and a cup of raw sewage would bring the clean water to present U.S. standards...
Most of the federally sponsored research in the last decade has focused on space and defense and has had limited practical use. "The supposed technological fallout from the NASA program has been more of a drip-out," says Physicist Ralph Lapp. He characterizes the Saturn F-l moon rocket as a typical example of "techno-giantism," which involves enormous effort and expense to perform an exquisitely specialized task, but so far has almost no application for a civilian market...
...space program, but in the long run there is perhaps no entirely rational way in which to assess it. Such a project can only be viewed and approved -if approved at all-in inspirational terms. "The real reason for undertaking the space program," says one Apollo defender, Physicist Harold Urey, who is quoted in Journey to Tranquility, "is an innate characteristic of human beings, namely, some curious drive to try to do what might be thought to be impossible-to try to excel in one way or another." Urey compares such drives to the devotion that led to the building...
Died. Dr. Sydney Chapman, 82, British physicist and chief coordinator of the International Geophysical Year, I.G.Y. 1957-58; of a heart attack; in Boulder, Colo. Widely acclaimed for his studies of the sun, most notably his theory explaining how solar eruptions cause magnetic storms and auroral displays on earth. Chapman displayed an almost equal genius as manager and coordinator of I.G.Y., which engaged many thousands of scientists in a worldwide cooperative study of planet Earth...
McElroy, a physicist at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, served as a member of the NASA Lunar and Planetary missions board, for whom he produced studies of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter...