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...downtown hotel is feeling the pinch of a new kind of competition: the motel. For years glued to the roadsides of the nation, the motel is moving into town. San Francisco, where only one conventional hotel has been built in 30 years, has acquired 52 "motor inns," as the intown motels are called nowadays; in Manhattan, which last summer got its first new hotel in 30 years, there are three big new motor inns and two more abuilding; a new motor inn in Washington, six blocks from the White House, is one of five built in the past five years...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from a Paris hit, puts a pinch of murder into a pot of sex. It is stirred amusingly well by Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau...
...past five years, the Navy has talked hopefully of some day having a nuclear surface fleet to match its atomic submarines. But nuclear ships cost up to approximately 50% more than their conventional counterparts, and the pinch of economy has restricted the Navy's budget to the Enterprise, the cruiser Long Beach, and two frigates still to be built...
...when a small amount of nitrogen gas is allowed to leak into the gap, a spark flashes, turning the nitrogen into a plasma by ionizing its atoms. The heavy current, which lasts only a few millionths of a second, creates a magnetic field that gives the plasma a powerful "pinch" and sends it squirting in brief bursts through a carefully shaped hole. The silent blue-white flash of escaping plasma looks harmless and feeble, but its temperature reaches as high as 200,000° F., and its particles shoot into the vacuum at 100,000 m.p.h...
...gravitation. Engines designed for use after a vehicle has been lofted into orbit need only a little thrust, but they must exert it for a long time, using only a whiff of fuel. Alfred E. Kunen, director of Republic's Plasma Propulsion Laboratory, explained that the plasma pinch engine will get its electricity from solar cells and store it temporarily in a battery. When thrust is needed, the engine can work continuously for months or years, consuming only a small amount of nitrogen...