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...liquid salt, the AEC hopes, will prove an energy reservoir from which power can be extracted, probably by injecting water into the cavity and taking it out as high-pressure steam, capable of running a turbine. No one expects that the first small explosion (cost: $5,500,000) will yield power cheap enough to be economically competitive. Even if all the energy in the 5-kiloton Domb were recovered as electric power, it would cost nearly $1 per kwh. Conventional coal-fired power stations produce electricity for less than...
Miller compared computers to steam shovels, because they both "save man from back-breaking labor which he shouldn't do anyway. I welcome the machine for it gives man the opportunity to do things which I value more...
...Hammarskjold emphasized that the static concept, that of a sounding-board for accusations, a sort of international steam valve, applies "to history and to the traditions of national policies of the past." But an international forum, which represented a tremendous advance 15 years ago, is no longer sufficient. Only a dynamic organization, in which governments unite for "more developed and increasingly effective forms of constructive international cooperation," can meet the challenges of a world which possesses the power of self-annihilation...
Neither Berlin nor Bizerte was most on Charles de Gaulle's mind last week as he returned to his village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises for twelve days' meditation. Too soon to get up steam about Berlin, he told everyone. As for Bizerte. the news that the Afro-Asian bloc got the 50 states needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly brought only the cold reply that France would boycott it. What really troubled De Gaulle was Algeria...
...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...