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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a year ago, almost every available inch of wall space in Algiers sang the praise of Charles de Gaulle, but last week, on the first anniversary of his being called to power, the city was in a different mood. Though 50,000 people gathered in the forum to hear speeches, they were mostly Moslems, whom the French soldiers can mobilize for shows with quiet efficiency. "Shout ' Algerie Franfaise!'" cried an officer from a psychological-warfare unit, but he got only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered...
...into only 113 games in five years, hit a lowly .224. This season Yost was gone (in a trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games. In the field he still has a bad habit of spearing balls one-handed. But his batting average has held up well, is currently an acceptable...
...which whirl ionized particles many times around a circular path, giving them more and more speed. But at the higher energies, the whirling particles are hard to control and give low beam intensity. Linear accelerators are relatively simple in principle, but tremendously complicated to engineer, and require much more space. Starting electrons at one end of a long, straight path, they push them toward the other end by a carefully timed series of microwave pulses, producing very high energies with the electrons concentrated in a high-intensity beam...
...tube transmits as much as 25 h.p. on a beam of 10 cm. waves shot into the air by a dish antenna. A nest of these tubes can be focused at a point about 50,000 ft. up. Some of the beams' energy will wander off into space, but Raytheon scientists believe that a saucer-shaped receiver can capture 35% to 50%. Turned into heat, this energy could drive a gas turbine which would drive the helicopter blades...
...fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced that liquid hydrogen, until recently hardly more than a laboratory curiosity, is being produced in considerable quantities as a rocket fuel. Liquid hydrogen is tricky stuff; it boils at minus 423° F., only about 37° above absolute zero. If it is not stored in elaborately insulated containers, it quickly turns to hydrogen gas, and a small amount of the gas makes a dangerous explosive mixture with...