Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British reactor experts were not impressed. The Soviet reactor is remarkable chiefly for its size. In other respects it is oldfashioned, using graphite as moderator, and ordinary water for-cooling. Its operating temperature, 180° C (356° F.), is low and therefore inefficient for power production. Soviet Delegation Chief Vasily Emelyanov practically admitted that the reactor is a dual purpose one whose primary job is making plutonium for nuclear explosives...
...Blue-Water Racer. Ever since he learned to sail as a boy on Cape Cod, Designer Stephens has shown the same loving and calculating care for boats. Son of a prosperous Bronx coal dealer, he completed one year at M.I.T., got jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
Stephens was 22 when he took a vacation from his drawing board and, with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...
...Ranger was 87 ft. long on the water line, 133 ft. overall, and faster than any 12-meter because of her size...
While flying and deep-sea diving may seem a long way apart, Link says they are not. "In the water and in the air navigation is the main problem, and the main fascination. I simply have applied what I've learned about air navigation...