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...coal mining center of Stalino (pop. 800,000) became Donetsk; the main street of Minsk switched from Stalin Prospect to Leninsky Prospect. So it went down the line of cities, towns, villages, regions, streets, squares, and out into the country to include one bay, one canal and one mountain peak. The mayor of Stalingrad (pop. 600,000) wanted to do away with one of the legendary names of World War II-a place where over a million men clashed, in the turning point of the war-but had a hard time finding a new one; it was unthinkable that...
...United Arab Republic, which opened Nasser's eyes to the number of "reactionary elements" surviving at home, he dissolved the National Assembly and his National Union Party, announced a complicated triple pyramid of electoral arrangements in advance of "free" elections, to be held perhaps next year. At the peak of the pyramid will be a single list of carefully screened candidates who "believe passionately" in Nasser's brand of socialism...
...that sent the stock market charging up. On one day alone, a record 1,360 issues were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, well over 6,000,000 shares changed hands, and the Dow-Jones industrials index climbed 9.14 points to 723.74-just a shade below its alltime peak of 726.53 in early September. At week's end, still on the rise, the market...
...Boilers. Prince's researchers started off from a long-established fact: when it is chilled to -258° F., methane "freezes" into a liquid that occupies only one six-hundredth as much space as methane gas. A Moscow utility plant has for years "frozen" methane to store for peak consumption periods. But no one knew a safe and inexpensive way of keeping methane at such a low temperature while it was being shipped. To solve the transportation problem, Prince pooled resources with Continental Oil Co. and later with Royal Dutch/Shell in a combine called Conch International Methane...
This sort of supererogatory melodrama reached a peak of turgidity in Warren's worst novel, Band of Angels (Orville Prescott in the New York Times, 1955: "thoughtful reflections upon moral issues and psychological factors"). Amantha, the beautiful ante-bellum heroine, is setting divinity students aquiver at Oberlin College when she hears that her plantation owner father has died. Back in Kentucky, to her horror and the reader's titillation, she learns not only that she is the daughter of a slave woman, but that the plantation and she herself with it are being sold for taxes. Soon Amantha...