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TIGER OF THE SNOWS (294 pp.)-The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest, written in collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman-Putnam...
Hershey's office issued the statement to refute claims made by Retired Admiral DeWitt C. Ramsey. Ramsey, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, said that draft policy is paradoxical...
...dramatic surprise with a play called Patterns, by Rod Serling. A many-sided study of top-level stress in a big corporation, the play had areas of strength and persuasiveness that made Executive Suite look like Little Women. The plot dealt with the arrival at the multimillion-dollar Ramsey & Co. of Richard Kiley, a young Midwest engineer who was being groomed to replace Ed Begley, veteran vice president. The sun around which both revolved was Bossman Everett Sloane, a tough, intelligent operator who handled power as if it were his own invention. The drama lay in the meteoric but uneasy...
Professor Ramsey believes that Saturn has a similar structure. Uranus and Neptune are mostly ammonia and methane. Recent studies by M.J.M. Bernal and H.S.W. Massey at University College in London have shown that ammonia joins with hydrogen at 250,000 atmospheres to form metallic "ammonium": NH4. So the interiors of Neptune and Uranus probably contain another metal made out of a gas by pressure...
...earth, Professor Ramsey believes the same pressure effect comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...