Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as of the mysterious currents that flow there will decide the future's underwater wars. Though the seas cover 70% of the earth's surface, oceanographers have carefully mapped only about a third of the world's ocean floor. The Russians have gone full steam on oceanography, have built the world's biggest fleet of floating oceanographic laboratories-14 large vessels v. the U.S.'s half-dozen*-and have explored much of the floor of the Arctic Ocean...
...Work, Work, Work." Careerman Bob Murphy fell into the Foreign Service almost by accident. Born in Milwaukee on Oct. 28, 1894, he was the only son of an Irish-American steam fitter on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. He worked his way through school, held dozens of odd jobs, e.g., selling the Milwaukee Journal. By 1916 he had managed to get into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk...
They'd Rather Die. Explanation quickly returned the White House pressure gauge to normal, but the Senate was already under full steam. Georgia's Richard Russell, whose prestige as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee had suffered during the battle for a Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than...
...some of the issues, which once seemed so important, are now in the process of disappearing." said Florida's George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. But the shift of issues was plainly forcing the Democrats toward a change in campaign strategy. With most of the steam gone from some of their liveliest stumping topics, they began heading back to the course steered all along by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: booming the "responsible" Democratic Party, which has proved that it can work constructively with a Republican President. That was the same strategy that returned Democratic majorities...
Last week the era of such small plants began, as the 210-ton Argonne Low Power Reactor went critical, i.e., began a controlled chain reaction, at the Atomic Energy Commission testing grounds in Idaho Falls. The Argonne reactor is a natural-circulation boiling water reactor: it produces steam simply and directly in its core instead of in a separate heat exchanger leading to the turbogenerator, and has an air-cooled condenser that drastically cuts down the total water needed. Full capacity: 3,000 thermal kw. -enough to light 260 average homes or (if used as radiator steam) to heat...