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Running out of steam-and questions -Erhard looked around the room for support from Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel. They, like Erhard, are pro-British, and like Erhard, have grave reservations about Adenauer's comradeship with De Gaulle. But neither was prepared to bring down the government; Schroder found a sudden fascination in his thumbnails; Von Hassel shuffled papers...
...bars were closing. The stars dazzled down out of the freezing sky, a few youths weaved along the street, steam rose slowly from the outdoor swimming pools, a tall ski instructor carried a ravishing blonde out of the Molly Gibson, and somebody slipped on the ice amid a roar of laughter...
...Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear the slightest intrusion of reality...
...more satisfactory system, says Physicist R. Philip Hammond of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, could be built around large nuclear reactors. In the magazine Nucleonics, Hammond explains that as reactors increase in size, the heat that they produce becomes cheaper and cheaper. Steam generated by a 10 million-kw. reactor costs only one-quarter as much as steam from a 1,000,000-kw. reactor. The necessary uranium fuel is relatively cheap, and most of the cost of running a nuclear reactor involves a variety of other items. But the cost of many of these increases only slightly as the plant...
Arthur Hill gives the crowning portrayal of his to be presidential timber, couldn't even become department chairman. He is as impressive in what he holds back as in what he gives. The role, like that of Othello, needs careful control, and the player must not let go full steam too soon. Hill is wonderful at conveying the pent-up pressure that finally bursts forth into "total...