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...next day a prisoner work detail from Compound 96, carrying sewage buckets on poles, stopped at the corner of Compound 85 as if to exchange messages through the wire. When U.S. guards tried to get the detail moving again, a prisoner charged one of the Americans with his three-inch-thick pole. The guard shot him dead. When other prisoners rushed up with their poles, the same guard shot down...
...their menacing gestures the Russians stopped just short of the real provocation: shutting off all traffic to the 2,000,000 West Berliners, who occupy an island of freedom 100 miles beyond the Western frontier. Perhaps, by a sort of creeping blockade, they hoped to choke off Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped to achieve the maximum of mischief short...
More Energy. Houdry's process is quite simple. The catalytic units are arranged in layers in the chimneys, and each unit has 73 porcelain rods coated with a thin film (only .003 inch) of alumina and platinum alloy. This coating is the catalyst, which combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to burn up noxious wastes, and in so doing generates still greater heat...
...plains of Utah, shirt-sleeved crews set off dynamite blasts and, from the vibrations, map the subterranean oil-bearing strata. Over Alabama cottonfields fly planes with strange; antenna-like tails, which pick up magnetic waves and thus record geological formations below. In West Texas, wildcatters, trucks loaded with tools, inch across the prairies like gypsy caravans...
...West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved...