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...roving through mine, mill and smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...
Almost two weeks behind schedule because of unfavorable winds, the U.S. this week fired its eighth hydrogen device-its first superbomb to be dropped from a plane. Estimated size of the big shot: 10 megatons, the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT...
...Closed-circuit television was begun seven years ago by Theatre Network Television Inc. (TNT), has since been used extensively for business conferences, medical demonstrations and heavyweight championship fights. Last week was TNT's first political effort. The TNT company leased more than 30,000 miles of telephone lines from A.T. & T. Cost to Republicans for their closed circuit...
...forced on the Department of Defense a grave decision: to concentrate intensively on the ICBM. No longer did the intercontinental ballistic missile need to hit a one-mile "pickle barrel" to be effective. A T-N (thermonuclear) warhead in the megaton range (equivalent to millions of tons of TNT) would blot out a large city even if it exploded well outside the city's limits, and its radioactive fallout would have a killing effect a long way downwind. So the ICBM, besides being fairly small, might be fairly inaccurate and still do its job. For it, a C.E.P. (circular...
...civic reception in Bangalore. India, Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev added some more information and a helping of propaganda. The experiment, said Khrushchev, used a "minimum" amount of atomic material to create a "maximum" explosion. His interpreter said the blast was equal to "a million tons of TNT." but some Russian reporters insisted that Khrushchev said "more than one million tons." Then, after announcing that "Russia will never be first to abuse this power." Khrushchev clapped his hands above his head to lead the applause for his own statement. After the applause he went on: "We shall be glad...