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...powdery oxide is sifted slowly down into a flame formed by the union of the two gases. (An oxyacetylene flame is much too hot.) The powder drops and melts on the tip of a slowly moving stick. There, drop by drop, a single large crystal is formed. It is called a boule. Two hours are required to form a 200-karat boule the size & shape of a large bullet...
Simple in principle, this process is maddeningly tricky to control. Biggest problems are maintaining: 1) absolute purity of the powder; 2) its even flow to the flame; 3) a constant temperature. For over a year Union's scientists fussed and fretted until a steady output of boules was achieved last month. This week Union is turning out all the boules the U.S. needs, thinks it can meet the rising demand singlehanded, although several other firms are now preparing to enter the field...
...Yard this summer will lack the usual atmosphere of powder-puff lethargy and will be even more crowded than it is during regular term-time. Transients from Smith, Vassar, and other girls' colleges, as well as school-teachers from everywhere, will make Harvard as near co-ed as it could possibly be without a revolution...
...build the School.) Dean Donham's successor is Idaho-born, 46-year-old Donald Kirk David, a graduate of the School (1919) and an old Donham disciple. Donham's first assistant, after 1927 he became a power in retail foods, first with Royal Baking Powder, then as first president of Chase & Sanborn, finally as a director of Standard Brands. Last February he went back to the Business School as associate dean...
...insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power to destroy not merely itself but all other parts of the world. ... As a tremendous bomb the Eurasian Triangle may be divided into a European fuse or detonator, and an Asiatic powder charge." The history of Europe in the last hundred years is a history of the attempt to explode this bomb by bringing together the detonator and powder charge. "The detonator is composed of the militaristic peoples that have for centuries dominated or attempted to dominate Europe. ... To the militarist the resources...