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Largely a brainchild of Dr. Weinberg, the reactor HRE-2 (for Homogeneous Reactor Experiment No. 2) is an attempt to avoid some of the worst disadvantages of solid-fuel reactors. Since solid uranium is quickly corroded at high temperature, it must be enclosed in a more resistant metal such as zirconium or stainless steel. As the uranium fissions, it generates gases that tend to burst the container. Other fission products absorb neutrons, and when too much of this "poison" has accumulated, it makes the nuclear reaction slow down or stop. At intervals, the fuel elements must be removed and their...
...world's greatest personal-publicity experts, Spain's Surrealist Salvador Dali, made his regular winter pilgrimage to Manhattan, managed to make sure that everybody knew of his arrival. Dressed in a gold leather space suit, Dali looked a trifle Martian while posing inside his latest brainchild, an "ovocipede," a transparent plastic sphere that rolls merrily along while its operator sits comfortably (says Dali) encapsulated. For newsmen, Dali climaxed his performance by letting the ovocipede get out of control, wound up sublimely supine...
Muschel's success inevitably attracted imitators. In 1958 Chicago's City News Bureau, a journalistic cooperative financed by all four Chicago dailies, launched the PR News Service, a private publicity system patterned after Muschel's brainchild and equally successful. And this year in Los Angeles, two pressagents, incorporated as Transmit, Inc., offered the same service to Southern California newspapers and radio and television stations...
...just run it up on his own sewing machine. Last week, like 100 other middle-aging student teachers, Lyons was well launched in a startlingly successful effort to help beat Britain's shortage of 10,000 teachers. The scheme: Britain's first mixed adult teachers training college, brainchild of white-haired George Taylor, head of state schools in Leeds...
...brainchild of John U. Monro, then Director of Financial Aid, H.S.A. was set up with three purposes in mind: to supervise established enterprises and promote new business ventures for the benefit of students in need of financial aid; to provide experience in the practical management of business affairs; and "to foster, encourage and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...