Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perhapsatron S-3. Perhaps the Perhapsatron and its descendants will win from the world's oceans enough energy to fill man's electric power needs for as long as the solar system exists. For the latest steps in taming the H-bomb for peacetime power, see SCIENCE, Toward H-Power...
Underlining nuclear power's international promise, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss stressed that U.S. and British scientists have been working in ''close cooperation" on controlled thermonuclear reactions, and will continue to do so. Added President Eisenhower next day, in a statement aimed toward Russia: "All Americans sincerely hope that other scientists in other countries will be encouraged by their governments to do similar research. As these and other experiments continue, the adoption of a worldwide atoms-for-peace program becomes more inevitable to permit all scientists to devote their skills and energies to the betterment of mankind...
...nose cone, but the other two were certainly fragments of the satellite itself. Between Jan. 2 and 5, two of the pieces broke into smaller bits and spiraled closer to earth. On Jan. 6 he distinguished eight distinct fragments, all of them still orbiting, but at slightly different speeds. Toward the end, it took as much as 30 minutes for the procession to cross Ohio. Dr. Kraus thinks that the Sputnik's thin metal skin disintegrated first, allowing its contents (batteries, instruments, radio apparatus, etc.) to come apart...
...many parts of the earth. By new, ingenious methods, IGY scientists are studying ocean currents, including those far below the surface. One of them flows under the Gulf Stream in the opposite direction. Even deeper, slower currents flow away from the Poles, carrying icy water along the ocean bottoms toward the equator. This water is rich in nutrient salts, so whenever it comes to the surface, as it does off Newfoundland and Peru, the sea boils with life...
COPPER PRODUCERS are pressuring Congress for higher import walls. They want 4?-a-lb. tariff when prices fall to "peril point" of 30?, instead of current tariff (suspended until next July) of 1.8? a Ib. at peril point of 24?. With copper now selling at 25?, Congress is leaning toward peril-point boost, but frowns at lifting tariff itself...