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...fuel is uranyl sulphate dissolved in heavy water (which does not absorb as many neutrons as ordinary water). When this solution is flowing in a small-bore pipe, it does not react, because the fissionable uranium atoms are too strung out to form a critical mass. But when the fuel solution flows into a spherical reaction chamber, the compact mass becomes critical. A nuclear chain reaction starts, and heats the solution. Before the reaction goes too far, the solution is sucked away by pumps and forced through a heat exchanger, where it heats ordinary water to produce high-pressure steam...
Smog Reliever. The automobile industry will use an inexpensive device to control smog-producing automobile fumes in all cars manufactured for sale in California in 1961. The industry has discovered that hot gases from the exhaust pipe are not the main source of air pollution; smog is mainly caused by the oily vapors, principally hydrocarbons, that gather in the crankcase, are normally vented into the open air. The new device is a tube from the crankcase vent to the intake manifold. This carries the hydrocarbons through the engine, where they are burned up. Price: about...
...drinks before noon. First, there was the song about Mommy kissing him on the sly--and of course that reindeer with the bulbous nose (probably acquired from "nightcaps" during the long polar dark). But now, the flood-gates are opened. We will be hearing Freudian chuckles about Santa's pipe, husbands will be accused of wearing invisible antlers; children will be warned about fat, beared men who get too friendly...
...Celanese Corp. of America formed the jointly owned Celanese Mexicana, now grown 16 times into a corporation capitalized at $27 million. Other outstanding joint ventures in Mexico: Nabisco-Famosa (biscuits), Altos Hornos (steel), Tubos de Acero (a combine with Italian, French and Swedish capitalists to make steel pipe...
...theory that a museum should be a popular showroom of art rather than a quiet haven. Cheek even goes so far as to pipe soft music through the museum galleries (different music subtly matched to the mood of different galleries), provides visitors with canned gallery talks (on transistor radio sets) as well...