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Unrestrained Fireball. Shooting it up to the proper height is not much of a problem, but no one knows how its nuclear warhead will behave when it is exploded in the near-vacuum of the upper atmosphere. With little air to resist its expansion, the unrestrained fireball may grow to enormous size. Atomic particles and radiation that are stopped by dense air may be flung far enough to do damage at a considerable distance...
Another Bell breakthrough in 1948 was the discovery, after years of basic research into the structure of matter, that a solid metal such as germanium or silicon (earth's most abundant solid element) can be made to act like a vacuum tube, i.e., it will amplify an electric signal. Result: the flea-size transistor−and a king-size new industry. Thirty-five manufacturers have already turned out 7,000,000 transistors v. 1 billion vacuum tubes now in use in the U.S., are doubling output each year. Transistors will multiply the speed of future telephone exchanges...
...Adjectives Wanted. A month after the Ford Foundation launched the project with $106,000 a year to "fill a vacuum" in the South (TIME, June 14, 1954), circulation of the News, then distributed free, leaped from 10,000 to 30,000. It went to top Southern state and city officials, hundreds of school boards, educators, editors-and ordinary parents who found plenty of opinion on the issue in their own newspapers but too little information. Last year, when the service began charging $2 a year, subscriptions began at 3,000 and quickly rose to 12,000 in 48 states...
COSTLIER COFFEE is in store, caused by U.S. competition for quality South American beans, which are in short supply due to rain damage. Most vacuum-packed brands will soon retail for $1.10 per lb., v. the $1.40 record set as a result of market manipulation in 1954. Instant coffee will go up about...
...announcement was timed to support Sir John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus is starting to pay off. With sharp, soldierly precision, Harding told a closed-door meeting of 300 M.P.s at Westminster how it works: only when terrorism is stamped out will the "fertile vacuum" be created in which new, moderate Cypriot leaders will emerge...