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...body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest cratering shots, Sedan (100 kilotons) and Danny Boy (400 kilotons), were fired in 1962 and proved that the Ploughshare rules for nuclear explosives work just as well in hard, heavy rock as in loose soil...
Best Depth. The rules are remarkably precise. If a shot is placed at too shallow a depth, as Buster Jangle-U. was, it wastes most of its energy on the air. If it is too deep, it lifts a great amount of soil and broken rock, but lets most of the stuff fall back into the crater...
HOUSTON Bureau Chief Mark Sullivan first set foot on Texas soil in August 1959, when he crossed the Red River near Denison and was somewhat disappointed to see that the Texas side looked the same as the Oklahoma side. In the 4½ years since, he has been in virtually every corner of the state, even to Wink, Waxahachie, North Zulch, Buffalo Gap and Muleshoe. What he has found, as he reported for this week's cover story, is that "there are few if any generalities that can be applied to the state as a whole." Writer Ed Magnuson...
...Ranch." Said Connally: "This is my children's property. The Cs stand for children.* I bought this spread for them, and I like them to come down and use it as much as they can. It's good for a person to get back to the soil, away from things, back here where you can think...
Polonium, the researchers maintain, occurs naturally in the tobacco leaf, since it is absorbed through the roots of all green plants from the soil. It is also absorbed to a lesser degree from "natural fallout" in the atmosphere...