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...oxide films or a thin layer of gas that keeps the metals from actually touching. National Research scientists were interested in what happens when metals touch in the hard vacuum high above the earth's atmosphere. In their space simulation chamber they created an almost perfect vacuum (10 torr-), the same as spacecraft encounter 500 miles above the earth. In that ultra emptiness, surface gases evaporated; oxide films, once cleaned off, did not return...
...doubt that the willful Queen had a warmly loving relationship with the rough Scottish servant. The only recorded time in which the two were alone together, thinking that they were unobserved, makes a touching, human vignette. On a walk near Balmoral in 1875, a Mr. John Barry-Torr and his wife rounded a bend to see an empty pony cart and, a few yards away, Victoria and John Brown. Brown, pinning a plaid round the Queen's shoulders, apparently scratched her; she squealed and protested. "Brown offered no apology. He gave the Queen a kind of shake, clutched...
...phone will ring three times and the following message will come on: "The message you have die-yelled is out of serviss. If yu nee dahsistanz pleez stay on the phowon until the ohpahray-torr answers...
...weeks, Canada's top foreign policymakers had let the impression get around that they were thinking of recognizing Communist China-if not now, then in. the near future. Three times during his recent world torr, Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent casually referred to the Red Chinese regime as "the government the people want." External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, in speeches in Washington and Chicago, called for "a new look at the situation...
Living Dangerously. In Elmira, N.Y., St. Joseph's Hospital treated a right middle finger, dislocated when the patient pulled his hand out of his pocket. In Greencastle, Ind., thirsty John Torr tilted his head to drink a bottle of pop, was hospitalized with a cracked vertebra...