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...Phelan version of Hughes' experience with steam-powered automobiles when he owned two of them in 1926 quotes Dietrich...
...Steam from the huge mounds of spaghetti and meat sauce gently drifted toward the ceiling and softened the harsh fluorescent light in the crowded Lions Club in old Key West. The crowd chatter, much of it warmly spiced with Spanish-American syllabication, died. The speaker was a stumpy, smoothfaced man who was as far away from his home in Everett, Wash., as he could be. His Adlai Stevenson-era button-down blue shirt, neat striped tie, close-clipped sideburns and Trumanesque pungencies perhaps marked him as a man of the 1950s. "What I stand for," said Henry Jackson, "comes closer...
Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...
...year ago the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) did not even exist in the Uruguayan political picture. Today there is scarcely anyone in the tiny South American nation (pop. 2,900,000) who has not heard of the new leftist coalition. It has picked up so much popular steam since it was formed last February that some observers go so far as to give it a fair chance of winning next week's presidential elections. The latest Gallup poll, released last week, shows the Broad Front running a close second among Montevideo's voters to the ruling Colorado party...
...their promise, many design problems must be solved before breeders can produce electricity on a commercial scale. One difficulty lies in handling the coolant-the liquid or gas used to transfer heat from inside the reactor's core to a steam-producing boiler outside. Unlike conventional reactors, which use water as a coolant, the so-called liquid-metal "fast breeders" planned by the AEC will use liquid sodium, which is an extremely efficient thermal conductor. But since sodium also burns in air and reacts strongly with water, it requires elaborate safeguards to prevent a mishap that could leak radioactive...