Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William A. Cowart and Lewie W. Griggs-and they had compelling reasons to stay with Communism. As a prisoner, Bell had publicly proclaimed that U.S. officers had ordered him to kill women and children, that President Harry S. Truman was a warmonger, and that he would gladly run a tank over the President's body. Cowart had boasted that he hated America and had accused the U.S. of germ warfare. Griggs toadied to his captors by calling them "comrades" and won prison favors through anti-American broadcasts and articles...
Flooded Flotation Tank...
Within two points of the lead at the end of each division's tenth race, the Crimson skippers fell off the pace for good as both Ford and Lehmann sailed disappointing eleventh races. A flooded flotation tank in Lehmann's Tech Dinghy crippled the boat by adding almost 100 pounds of weight in the bow, and Lehmann limped home in last place...
Enclosed though he was in 9-ft. by 5-ft. tank, Biologist Joe D. McClure was not alone: connected with him by pipes were several billion or trillion single-celled algae (Chlorella). Looking like grass-green soup, the algae were housed in tall columns faced with transparent plastic and brilliantly lit by a bank of fluorescent lamps. Parades of bubbles climbed up the columns-and it was those bubbles, enriched with oxygen by the algae, that McClure last week breathed for 26 hours before emerging hale and hearty...
...idea, but it is far easier to accomplish in fiction than in fact. Many space-minded companies have added algologists to their staffs, but Boeing believes it is the first to keep a man alive for a full day on algal oxygen. The original air in McClure's tank would have become unbreathable in a short time. But as soon as the door closed, pumps started bubbling the air through the columns of illuminated algae...