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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemist Libby's water clock will be based on the same principle as the carbon 14 calendar. Some ten miles high, in the stratosphere, cosmic rays stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...
...night, of spherical storage tanks, huge gate valves, heavy flow lines and brightly lit cracking plants. There was a symbol of oil in war-two G.I.s tensely guarding a fuel dump on Sai-pan-and a salute to oil in peace-a gay sailfishing party riding the Gulf Stream in a power cruiser...
...melodrama. Reformist M.P. Pettigrew speedily rouses the fury of the village women, while his wife works havoc with the menfolk. The Greek professor (who is Author Linklater disguised in a tunic) orates at length on life, love and Labor; the poachers cast their nocturnal nets in the moorland stream. Sluggish Laxdale plunges into a 'hubbub of mingled rage, passion, skulduggery and Euripidean oratory...
What with the Memorial Theater, Anne Hathaway's cottage and the constant stream of tourists, the citizens of Stratford on Avon (pop. 15,000) decided that Famous Son William Shakespeare was too much with them these days. To satisfy their complaints, the town council voted to spend up to $560 a week to bring ordinary vaudeville shows to a local music hall...
...mule stalls, took walks along dark tunnels lit only by their battery-fed cap lamps, and relaxed with Communist papers sent down from the shaft head. On the surface, their families camped forlornly near -barbed-wire enclosures redolent with the rotten-egg smell of sulphur furnaces. A constant stream of baskets containing fish, cheese, soup and meat passed through the gate to be sent below. With the baskets went an occasional note. "If you don't come up, I'll go away forever," wrote one wife. Her husband scrambled out of the emergency exit...