Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Three black mice named Moe, Sally and Amy were installed in a heavily shielded model of the U.S. man-in-space capsule last week, along with liberal rations of oxygen, oatmeal, peanuts and gelatin and a variety of scientific instruments. Then the capsule itself was placed in the nose cone of an Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, and the missile lofted 650 miles into space and down the Atlantic toward Ascension Island at speeds reaching 18,000 m.p.h. During the ride, the mice rode into the perilous inner Van Allen radiation belt and were also treated to ten minutes...
Professor Groth says that existing centrifuges require only one-tenth as much electric power as diffusion apparatus of the same capacity. The present Degussa model can be built for about $1,000. and according to Zippe, it will produce in one year about one pound of U-235. Improvements already in sight will increase this figure. Both Groth and Zippe believe that centrifuges will eventually compete economically with gaseous diffusion in making nuclear fuel, enriched in U-235, for atomic power plants...
Buyers' Market. The shrewd bargainer can get good discounts on 1960 autos if he finds a dealer with a hefty backlog. Cuts on 1961 "models are harder to find. They are selling too well. Goodyear is slicing its winter tire prices from 10% to more than 15% on popular sizes. American Motors was the only U.S. automaker to raise its 1961-model prices-by $10 to $60-and the Frigidaire division of General Motors announced last week that it is "holding the price line" on 1961-model appliances. Even Robert Burns took big ads to boast price cuts...
Married. Viscount Astor, 53, eldest son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor and onetime Member of Parliament; and Bronwen Pugh, 29, top fashion model and daughter of an English county judge; he for the third time, she for the first; in a London borough office...
...from dead, and much of Zik's loyalty to his eastern Ibos inevitably will remain, just as will Awolowo's to the west, and Abubakar's to the north. But this also has the advantage of discouraging the development of monolithic one-man authoritarianism on the model of Nkrumah's Ghana and Toure's Guinea...