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...development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...Hours for Lunch. What devaluation means to the average Mexican is something else. With devaluation, prices of imported articles go up forthwith. Then up go prices of domestic articles which depend on foreign raw materials. Prices of purely domestic articles follow suit, because even tortilla vendors would like to own a radio...
...type that comes into use will depend largely on the supply of uranium. If uranium is cheap and plentiful, it will be used more or less in the natural state. If uranium proves scarce, the supply can be eked out by "breeding." A reactor will be surrounded by a blanket of thorium or the plentiful but nonfissionable uranium isotope, U-238. When these absorb excess neutrons from the reaction, they turn into fissionable plutonium...
...ignore Lyndon Johnson's attention-seeking antics rather than dignify them by mention in its columns. I am comforted, however, by the realization that those Texans who read your columns are not exactly the type to be much impressed by the characteristics of a wind mill, whose activities depend on how the wind is blowing and which, although constantly in motion and usually screeching, never gets anywhere...
...sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...