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Contacted last night at Woods Hole, Mass., Norman T. Allen, Personnel Director of the Oceanographic Institute there, said that the suspect worked as a seaman on the Institute's vessel, "Atlantis," during a spring cruise to Cannes, France and Recife, Brazil...
Last week his country's credit came to Dr. Penney. Early one morning, as he watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...
...when the American paddle-wheeler Pacific set a record for the Atlantic crossing, steamboats could barely exceed the time of a fast sailing vessel. The Pacific's time: 9 days 19 hr. 25 min. She was the last U.S. speed queen-since her day, the British, the Germans, the French and the Italians have held the Atlantic records. Last week, a century after the Pacific's run, the new superliner United States raced east into the Atlantic from New York...
...starts by immersing ground crude ore in chemicals and water to float out some foreign matter. The Chemico method, using ammonia or acid, dissolves this concentrate in an "autoclave," similar to a huge pressure cooker. The resulting ore-bearing liquid is piped through a filter into another pressure vessel, where terrific heat and force precipitate the pure metal as a fine powder...
...South Sea trading Vessel captain and a Polynesian princess, Davis hopes to reach Peru in 50 days, but he cannot tell how long it will take to reach Cambridge...