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...Slacks, still chatters on about his sponsor's solid products, still gives the latest news bulletins every half-hour. But in between, he must find out whom Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice married, define "scyphus," reel off the precautions that should be taken when making an atomic reactor or ponder such posers as how fast a snowball of a given diameter must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something to say. "Why, honey," he told a girl who wanted to know...
NUCLEAR ELECTRICITY for rural co-ops will be slow in coming because of inflation. With costs zooming, American Machine & Foundry backed out of deal with AEC to construct reactor for proposed rural co-op at Elk River, Minn., and Foster Wheeler Corp. withdrew offer to supply reactor for another co-op at Grand Rapids...
...Nobel prizewinner told a capacity audience that four new nuclear power stations now being constructed in England will be completed by 1961. Operating on graphite gas cooled reactor systems, these stations will produce nearly 20 per cent of Britain's electrical power demands...
FIRST POWER REACTOR built completely by U.S. private industry has been licensed by AEC to start operating in San Francisco area. The boiling-water reactor, made by General Electric Co., late this year will begin supplying 5,000 kw. (enough to serve a city of 15,000) to Pacific Gas & Electric...
...AIRCRAFT is climbing into two new fields to offset defense cutbacks. For business flying market, Lockheed has designed and built a ten-seat U.S. jetliner in record time of 30 weeks; plane has two engines and 500-m.p.h. cruising speed. For military customers, company is working toward small nuclear reactor which it hopes will be used as engine for guided missiles...