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...ridge south of Chonan, a bearded U.S. sergeant in a foxhole heard the ineffective crump of mortars behind him change to the sharper slam of 155-mm. Long Toms. "Boy," he said happily, "my morale...
...Americans were simply engaged in history's biggest vacation travel spree. Sixty million U.S. citizens-moved by no stronger stimuli than the slam of the schoolhouse door, the rustle of a travel folder and the feel of the hot summer sun -were going somewhere, many of them half way around the world, before the summer was over...
...said Acheson with a sigh, "all that is changed." He had only to glance at his leather-bound log of the week's business to know just how much it had changed. The log was crammed with slam-bang protests, denunciations and propaganda broadsides from Iron Curtain countries, and the U.S. replies, just as forceful, bouncing back with the speed of rockets. At week's end his docket of urgent communications looked something like this...
Another exciting project is to find out what happens when two protons slam together. At energies hitherto available, nothing much happens; the protons behave as if they were indestructible. But no physicist would care to bet on it-consid ering past surprises. Columbia's cyclotron may prove powerful enough to smash protons to bits and reveal a whole new level of sub-atomic structure...
...takes place in the sun. Deep under the white-hot surface, the temperature stands at something like 20 million degrees centigrade. Under such extreme conditions all atomic particles are in violent motion. The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen (single protons) zip around with enormous speed. They jostle one another and slam against other nuclei -smashing some and joining others. A complex chain of reactions takes place involving carbon and nitrogen, but the final result is the fusion of hydrogen into helium...