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Louisiana's Passman was piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
After once turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts...
...originally from the sun and are held high above the earth by the earth's magnetic field. The belt may extend outward for two earth radii (8,000) miles before it disappears. Van Allen suspects that the supply of plasma fluctuates a good deal; the particles tend to leak down to the earth's atmosphere and are replenished from time to time by fresh particles shot into space by disturbances...
...from the reactor. The heavy villains are the radium-painted luminous dials and markers used to permit operating in the dark. In a completely closed ventilating system with recycled air, the radon gas emitted by such markers becomes so concentrated that it could hinder detection of an actual reactor leak. After the markers were replaced by a nonradioactive type, an appreciable radon concentration remained. It was found to come from the dials of crewmen's luminous wristwatches, but was fortunately too low to menace health...
...Frig Leak. In the old pigboats, many other fumes and gases could be safely disregarded because they were periodically flushed out. Example: leaks of a common refrigerant gas (its identity remains a Navy secret) used in subs for many years. With Nautilus and Seawolf staying below for days and even weeks, the concentration of this gas built up to a point where many crew members had irritation in their respiratory systems; undetected and uncorrected, it would have become a definite health hazard...