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...midnight-to-8-a.m. "cateye" shift were working the rich bituminous veins of the Consolidation Coal Co.'s No. 9 mine in northern West Virginia. Suddenly, deep in the earth, an explosion thundered through the eight-mile-long labyrinth of shafts and tunnels. Shock waves rippled outward for miles, jolting the Marion County mining community into frightened wakefulness. At daybreak, thick clouds of greasy black smoke billowed 150 ft. into the grey morning...
...gamma rays from an exploding weapon strike electrons in the surrounding air, causing them to move rapidly away from the center of the burst. Because of the shape of the warhead, the irregularity of the atmosphere or the proximity of the explosion to the earth, the pattern of the outward-speeding electrons is seldom symmetrical; the overall effect is similar to that caused by a flow of accelerating electrons in only one direction...
Preparing for their biannual migration to Cambridge, the Yalies lack their usual spirit. Besides a few clever bumper stickers proclaiming "To H with Harvard" and "Flush the Johns" no outward manifestations of bravado are visible...
...demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated the smartest ones, thousands of executives woi get periodic leaves for intellectual recharging, and spend their lives in creativity...
...Limits. Prescott's most novel enterprise is the outdoor sports program Convinced that students need more than the artificial competition of games Prescott has abandoned traditional team sports. Instead, it has adopted the techniques developed by Outward Bound, an international program of more than 20 wilderness camps that stresses adventure, challenge and sell sufficiency...