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...normal, it will probably tiptoe toward price boosts on such defense items as carbon sheet, bars, plates and tubes. Despite grumblings that the wage settlement with the union will cause a cost-price squeeze, steelmen know only too well that any dramatic increase in prices (such as $6 a ton) would run smack into Lyndon Johnson's determination to hold prices steady...
...SEAHAWK. An advanced, 5,000-ton surface ship designed expressly for hunting subs; a prototype is scheduled to be built in the 1970s...
When the talk turns to traffic, people love to speak bleakly of Gordian gluts that move like glaciers, of an ever-rising tide of blood on the roads, of a dark future in which cars multiply until they plate the nation's surface with two-ton steel locusts belching exhaust fumes that turn the sky shroud-grey. Any one man's traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through...
...waited for an expected reaction of several stages: 1) the neutrinos hit atomic nuclei in the rock surrounding the chamber; 2) this interaction generated particles called mu-mesons; 3) the mu-mesons penetrated the mineral oil; 4) this caused tiny flashes of light called scintillations. On a 20-ton scintillation detector, Reines registered the scintillations, which he knew were caused originally by neutrinos...
...Little Pleasures, an ice cream and sweets parlor. Soup's On is a restaurant offering a big bowl of the stuff, a hunk of French bread and coffee for a buck, while Chances R and its sister restaurant across the street (called Across the Street) push a ton of hamburger and give away half a ton of peanuts every week...