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...Scott playing Patton. Sperry expects the 1980s to be an era of tremendous growth, nourished by technology just beginning to emerge from the labs. In five years, computers will be at least twice as fast and capacious as they are today; new airline navigation projects will make travel much safer. Most important, says Lyet, there is large opportunity, fed by need, for U.S. companies to expand exports...
...Safer supplies. U.S. ammunition depots and even aircraft used to sit out in the open in West Germany, vulnerable to attack. Now all U.S. warplanes are tucked safely inside $550,000 concrete and steel hangars. These are capable of withstanding a direct hit from a 500-lb. bomb. Many command posts, ammunition dumps and fuel depots have been similarly hardened. Tougher training. U.S. forces in Europe train more frequently and in more realistic circumstances than in the past. Surprise alerts sound at any moment of the day or night, sending troops racing to their posts. During the exercises, communications...
After we passed the roadblock we decided it would be safer to ditch the car and take to public transportation, which we did, always with the image before us of that one great present. As we discussed our plans with those around us on the train we met nothing but discouragement, but we would not listen to doubters. To much hung in balance. While we talked I grew nervous, and Namo's palms were sweating. At this point Christmas was less than nine hours away...
...hazards are simply a part of laboratory work and that singling out EDB for scrutiny is unfair since it fails to take into account the many other hazards necessarily present in all labs, including the Nat Sci 3 lab. But teaching laboratories can be made safe, or at least safer than they are now, and they should...
Soviet scientists insist that nuclear reactors are safer than other types of power plants and claim that many of the safety devices accepted as essential in the West are unnecessary. Their attitude can be unsettling to those who assume that even the best reactors must be treated with respect. At the Kurchatov, for example, scientists seemed blissfully unconcerned as visiting journalists leaned against flimsy railings to gaze down into an open experimental pool reactor and marvel at the blue radiation glow that emanated from its fuel rods. While the radiation itself was under water and posed no hazard, a dropped...