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...experimental Bell X2, already tested in glides from 30,000 ft., is now ready for even faster powered flight through the "thermal thicket." Launched, like the X-1A, from a mother plane, and pushed by a rocket engine designed to give a 16,000-lb. thrust, the slim-nosed, stainless steel X-2 will be used mainly to explore the effects of high speed and air friction on the metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot...
...first atomic energy reactor specifically designed for medical treatment and research is to be built for the University of California at Los Angeles. Its heart will be a foot-thick sphere of stainless steel containing uranyl sulfate enriched with uranium 235. Operating normally at 5 kw., the reactor will "burn" one ounce of fuel in 20 years, will provide gamma rays and neutrons for treating cancer patients as well as radiation for other research...
...using row upon row of files and machines to sort and answer thousands of letters that pour in daily, handling magazine, tract and book distribution and keeping books on the evangelist's thriving financial affairs. On the road, another staff of twelve rolls across country in eight stainless-steel truck trailers. Their cargo: a 200-by-360-ft. tent that Roberts claims is the largest evangelistic tent in the world, an aluminum preaching platform that can hold 60 people, a 60,000-watt lighting and public-address system and sundry other equipment worth...
...works. Small groups, picking favorites, quickly formed in front of Ben Shahn's Squash Court and U.S. Primitive Joseph Pickett's Manchester Valley. Contemporary U.S. abstract art proved almost too much to take. Among the sculptures, only Richard Lippold's shimmering construction of chromium and stainless-steel wires and Alexander Calder's familiar mobiles drew much appreciative comment. French artists took a hard, professional look at Jackson Pollock's chaotic drip paintings and Clyfford Still's brooding black canvas. But most Parisians, rocked by what they considered a meaningless world, gave up trying...
Four big U.S. railroads last week placed orders for radically new passenger cars in an effort to recapture lost passenger business and put it on a paying basis. ¶The Pennsylvania ordered a low-slung, lightweight stainless-steel train from the Budd Co. that will cost "somewhat over $1,000,000" and will have a capacity of 574 passengers. A separate power car will provide heat, light, and airconditioning for the seven tubular coaches. With coaches 2 ft. lower than present models, the train will take curves faster, cut running time between Washington and New York by 15%. Delivery: early...