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With sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...
...Windshield Factor. Adding to the problem was the fact that catastrophes occurred on top of an unusual rash of mere disasters. A Pennsylvania Railroad train derailment cost Travelers Insurance Co. $500,000. In the worst fire of the year, 53 men died in a missile-silo explosion at Searcy, Ark.; the entire insurance loss, amounting to almost $1,000,000, was borne by Aetna Life & Casualty Co. Most important, injuries and damage from auto accidents-which account for 40% of all casualty business-reached an alltime high. Not only were accidents more numerous, but they cost more; a smashed windshield...
...Missile Site 373-4, nestled among blackjack oaks in the Ozark foothills ten miles northwest of Searcy, Ark., had been out of operation for nearly six weeks. While the 174-ft.-deep silo, one of 54 Titan II sites in the U.S., underwent repairs to its air conditioning, plumbing and exhaust systems, its nuclear warhead was in storage at Little Rock Air Force Base, 55 miles away. The missile itself, a five-story, 18,000-m.p.h. Titan II of the type that is scheduled to launch this week's eight-day Gemini mission, remained in place as 55 civilian...
Sealed Lid. There was nothing to be done. For hours after the blast, smoke made it impossible for rescue teams to search the silo. The explosion had cut off the power, making it impossible to open the 700-ton steel and concrete lid that seals the silo airtight. As flames devoured what little oxygen there was, several men tried to crawl into air-conditioning ducts. The elevator was stalled for lack of power, and the only way up was a single ladder. Trapped workmen piled onto it in panic, and two wedged themselves hopelessly together in one narrow section...
...despite the casual air, there was nothing frivolous about the activity in that spinning silo. The Coriolis Acceleration Platform, as the Navy calls it, is being used as a reach into the future. In an experiment designed by Captain Ashton Graybiel, research director at the Navy's School of Aviation Medicine, Navy doctors are trying to find out what will happen to men when they venture into space on long interplanetary journeys. Cardiologist Graybiel suspects that the gravity-free condition in space may be bad for the heart and the rest of the circulatory system. But is it possible...