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...London's inhabitants breathe nothing but an impure and thick mist accompanied with a fuliginous and filthy vapor, so that catharrs, phthisicks, coughs, and consumption are more in this city than the whole earth besides...
First warning was the telltale eye-stinging vapor that old Londoners know so well. Out went the Red Alert to 200 hospitals, which went on a disaster standby in readiness for elderly patients, who are most susceptible to smog-induced pneumonia and bronchitis (or the "English disease," as it has long been known on the Continent). Ambulances searching for victims clanged their bells frantically, but could not extricate themselves from the vast rush-hour traffic jams. Not until the third day did London Transport authorities surrender to "very adverse weather conditions"; then, at last, they ordered their 5,000 buses...
...Some U.S. scientists believe that the cosmo nauts probably defecated into a slight vacuum, after which the feces were passed into a con tainer and frozen. Under this system the liquid content can be evaporated, purified, and passed back into the cabin as clean water vapor. The dried residue might then be stored in plastic bags. A similar condensation process could be used to dispose of urine. - A Danish Communist paper speculated that the craft weighed &l/2 tons each, compared with the five tons of Vostok...
...overhead shot of a biscuit warmer full of escargots seems a trifle arty, but the snails, piled high in a veil of heavenly vapor, look utterly royal. It dishonors them to say that the picture as a whole creeps at a snail's pace- but that, in a shell, is what happens...
...difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon of diamond, which has the highest vaporizing temperature of any solid substance, laser light produces a blue puff of vapor that is close to 18,000° F., about twice the temperature of the sun's white-hot surface...