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...fusion laboratories, and presumably the Russian ones too, are working on this idea. The practical difficulties are formidable. The heat must be carried away by refrigerating machinery as fast as it is formed. Neutrons will shower thickly through the coils as soon as a fusion reaction starts up inside. They will contribute more heat, and they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus...
...room, saw the flash, felt a slight shock, heard a slight noise, then a louder, rumbling one. He dashed into the tank room, saw that Kelley had run outdoors and collapsed a few feet from the door. "I'm burning up!" cried Kelley. Day carried him to a shower room, pulling some master switches on the way, and showered him with water. Then an ambulance took him to the hospital...
...hands. Harrington told him to go straight to the hospital for a check. Instead, Johnny called on a pre-med student for advice. Says Classmate Douglas Thornton: "I thought he was kidding. I said: 'Bury yourself.' " The two went to a motel, where Johnny took a brisk shower. Hospital officials later found Johnny in a drugstore, called in AEC and U.S. Public Health Service officials...
...Nixon has never shown a white feather concerning Communism. The smearing cartoons by the Washington Post's Herblock and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Mauldin must have caused their editors to give them a "shower" of red stars. It would be appropriate if these cartoonists signed their names in red ink. ANNA MAE G. COUMBOURAS Springfield, Mass...
...angrily denied the Foreman charge: "I have no control of any sort over her career." Greco may have given Zanuck that impression by accepting the lead in a British-German film against his advice. When he descended on her German location not long ago to demand script changes and shower presents, Greco purred by phone from her hotel room: "You can't come up. Wait there and I might come down." Then she went to bed, leaving Zanuck to shiver alone on the terrace in the autumn night. ¶ Sailors' eyes clicked like gyro-repeaters in a flank...