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...Chicago reactor is a concrete-shielded symbol of an economic force more far-reaching even than atomic energy. The force: research in industry. In the past 15 years a torrent of technological change has brought the U.S. greater material advances than any other nation has experienced in all history. With every breakthrough in the laboratory, industry has turned the new knowledge into new products for a society whose inventiveness has made achievement the bright converse of obsolescence...
...State Department flowed a torrent of policy decisions and position papers, hopes and trends and agreements, formal notes and informal memoranda-not to mention visiting foreign ministers and ambassadors-all symbolizing the quickening tempo of the cold war. Items of the week...
...River, meandering 340 miles through the northwestern hills to the sea, has been known as the "River of Sorrow." A plaything of the seasons, in summer's 120° heat the river dried to a trickle in a parched gulley. But in the monsoon, it became a raging torrent, scourging the Damodar Valley with malarial, crop-destroying floods. Last week the fickle Damodar could bear a new name: the River of Promise. Across its path stood three mighty dams, shunting water into irrigation ditches that will eventually reclaim 1,026,000 acres of wasteland, and four humming power plants...
Voting was spread over three election days. In the hope of creating a bandwagon psychology, Sir John had arranged to have his "sure" candidates on the first-day list. The bandwagon never rolled; it was swamped under a torrent of opposition votes. Sir John lost two-thirds of his Cabinet, as his party held on to only eight seats out of 42 at stake. The coalition won 28, the Communists five. At the second-day election, Sir John failed to hold a single seat, while the coalition picked...
Molecules of Color. Francis moved on to Paris in 1950 and set to work atomizing the structure of light. In most of Francis' canvases the results, brushed in with broad strokes (he uses a 4-in. brush), look like a jostling torrent of molecules of color. The effect Francis wants is to make his paintings "a source of light. When I paint I try to create the feeling of being in it." In Francis' latest work, even black paint rates as light. Francis sees no contradiction, points out that his black is "intense, glossy and luminous. It creates...