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...Does It. Scientists have long known that a fusion reaction takes place in the sun. Deep under the white-hot surface, the temperature stands at something like 20 million degrees centigrade. Under such extreme conditions all atomic particles are in violent motion. The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen (single protons) zip around with enormous speed. They jostle one another and slam against other nuclei -smashing some and joining others. A complex chain of reactions takes place involving carbon and nitrogen, but the final result is the fusion of hydrogen into helium...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...gone up again. But those industries which had gone through their own recessions and cut prices had found that the bottom was not so far down as they had feared. They had learned demand was indeed enormous if they went after it with their oldtime salesman's zip...
...best. But the familiar, arrogant zip had gone. Jersey City had heard him out when it went to the polls last week. That day, after 36 years of pious corruption and political tyranny, Boss Hague was toppled from his throne...