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...mushroom cloud climbed 90,000 feet, into the stratosphere, and a fast transport plane carrying an Air Force general and an Atomic Energy Commissioner at 30,000 ft., 50 miles away, had to turn and run to avoid being caught under the lip of the mushroom...
...String of Salutes. The test of last fortnight makes all its predecessors, including the 1952 shot, look like a string of one-inch salutes. The force of the explosion probably exceeded ten megatons (500 Hiroshimas). It sent a radioactive cloud billowing to a height that may have exceeded 20 miles. In the thin air of the stratosphere, it seems likely, the cloud slumped over like water tossed from a bucket...
...more been designated Premier, as well as President. Colonel Nasser was stepping back down to Vice Premier. The sudden Cabinet shifts of a fortnight earlier were rescinded. "The setup [is] as before," said the R.C.C. All the stormy doings of two weeks, it added, had been but "a passing cloud...
...Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets are hidden in clouds. Fascinating things may exist, for instance, beneath the white cloud deck of Venus, but no astronomer hopes to catch a glimpse of them...
...shrewd tactician, Young opened his campaign by trying to win White over to his side. He invited him to lunch in the lofty Cloud Club dining room atop Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There he painted a glowing picture of the Central's future, with business booming enough so that the price of Central stock would quadruple to 100. Young's plans for the Central call for borrowing $250 million and replacing all passenger cars with his "Train X" (a low, two-wheeled car that "flows around curves...