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...flesh, and the jagged ends of blood vessels, nerves and tendons had to be trimmed back. To give themselves room, the Chinese surgeons did something that their American colleagues consider very clever. They cut back the bones on each side of the break for almost a quarter-inch, thus preparing clean, smooth surfaces for joining...
Only at rare intervals, though, did Explorer XVI collide with anything bigger than a microscopic bit of cosmic dust. There were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...
...whose stock has soared 270% in the past year. The location is no coincidence, for President William C. Norris, 52, is an ardent baseball and football fan and an exhaustively meticulous planner. He keeps the company's growth timetable projected for years ahead in a top-secret, five-inch-thick notebook. Such elaborate forethought has paid off. In six years since he left Sperry Rand's Univac division to start on his own, Norris has made Control Data into a company with yearly sales of more than $63 million; last week he announced the purchase of the California...
...Continuum Radiation. Type IV bursts consist of intense radiation that persists over a broad-band of frequencies for an hour or more. On the Harvard film records, a continuum burst looks like a white streak, perhaps an inch high, running horizontally across the film. This type of radiation accompanies the largest flares. It may be followed almost immediately by a burst of high-energy particles which travel toward the earth at almost the speed of light. These powerful particles can cause terrestrial radio blackouts. These days later a shower cloud of particles may reach the earth and cause geomagnetic storms...
Making a good suit is a 200-step operation. It begins with "perching" or inspecting the 70 yard bolts of 60 inch wide cloth. A cold water shrinkage process follows, and then the wool dries over night on racks. This preserves its natural oils which would otherwise be harmed in drying more quickly, causing a more brittle fabric...