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...Dallas: For story on Texas amusement park, is it correct to say that the 103 fans are in oak trees, palm trees and banana trees? See SHOW BUSINESS, Under Nothin...
Strontium 90 is the notorious element in fallout that masquerades as calcium and lodges in human bones. But it is plentiful in the byproducts of plutonium manufacture, and the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, taking careful precautions, decided to use it. It was converted into strontium titanate, which is chemically inert and virtually insoluble, then formed into eleven pellets and welded into a three-layer jacket. All this had to be done by remote control from behind thick radiation shields-or the operators would not have lived to do more work...
Contented as an engineer barreling down a table-flat track, Russell gave one final glance at the latest barometer readings in the mountain passes, then climbed two stories to his own eighth-floor throne room. There, folding his 6-ft. 1-in., 207-lb. frame behind a golden-oak desk, he sat down to ponder his constant problem: how to keep profits healthy while engaged in the nation's sickest major industry. Says one S.P. director: "Don spends 25% of his time thinking down the road...
Among those who take dares, some men ride sharks; others guzzle a fifth of gin at one sitting. And some take the 162-ft. ride over Niagara Falls. So far as the records show, six men have gone over-in oak casks, steel barrels, truck inner tubes, bathing trunks-and only three survived. Last week, daredevil No. 7 shot the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in a rubber ball and bobbed to the surface grinning broadly, with a few abrasions. Said Nathan Boya, 30, a Negro from The Bronx, N.Y.: "I've always wanted to make this trip...
...Goals in Education"--concludes the tenth annual Advanced Administrative Institute of the Graduate School of Education, which has met here since July 10. Speaking today at an afternoon session at 2:15 p.m. in Baker Library at the Business School, Room 100, will be Kenneth W. Lund, Superintendent of Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, III., and Arthu S. Adams, president of the American Council on Education...