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...items. Most spectacular was a cut of about 2$ on a pint of beer, which, observed Amory, is "a fitting celebration perhaps of the achievements of an exhausting decade." Purchase tax on cars, TV sets and cosmetics is to fall from 60% to 50% ; on washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners it drops from...
...Andros Island, Axel Wenner-Gren, the Swedish tycoon (Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Bofors guns), has sunk $11 million in a long-range resort-and-home-building project. On the northern end of Andros, Parker Pen Co. Chairman Kenneth S. Parker is developing 8,500 acres of building and truck-gardening land. Louis R. Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach...
...Alamos' plasma thermocouple, the solid metals of a bimetallic thermocouple are replaced by a tiny (finch long) rod of uranium suspended inside a vacuum-sealed can that contains liquid cesium. The uranium is enriched with U-235. Around the cesium is a circulating coolant (see diagram). When the device is lowered inside a reactor, the uranium is bombarded by the neutrons generated by the reactor, causing the U-235 to fission and give off intense heat...
...thing about Salemme's art is that it appears to be abstract and is not. He was a figurative painter, working with multihued geometric figures of his own invention and picturing them, precisely arranged, on vacuum-cleaned stage sets. His figures seem about to spring into action, like the Tin Woodman of Oz. They could not look more mute; yet they speak of the human condition. Vintage of Uncertainties cruelly evokes the uncertain aspects of motherhood. The Oracle delicately poses a horrendous question: Which is the Oracle? Who is to be believed...
...theories while giving answers to military problems. e.g., the possible use of atomic charges exploded above the atmosphere as a defense against ballistic missiles. When an atom bomb explodes in the atmosphere, its fireball stops expanding when its pressure falls to that of the air around it; in the vacuum above the atmosphere, the fireball expands indefinitely. Ahead of its hot, ballooning shell races a host of electrons, other particles and gamma rays that would be stopped soon by the lower-lying atmosphere. Thus its lethal above-the-atmosphere range should be vastly increased...