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...bareknuckle anti-Commie on the way up, spent as much time at his first summit trying to persuade Leonid Brezhnev that they would both be winners with an arms-limitation agreement as he did espousing the U.S. position. John Kennedy early in his presidency grew heated and called Big Steel men "s.o.b.'s," then quickly cooled down and made amends. "If they don't do well, I don't do well," he explained. Even Lyndon Johnson, renowned for his arm twisting, had a more prosaic explanation for most of the successes so often credited to his legendary rage and threats...
...rumble underfoot starts faintly, then grows in force to recall the roar of a distant subway train. Tons of water are pouring down the 47-ft. drop at the Brockway Mills hydroelectric plant and smashing against the turbine blades. The glistening steel shaft connecting turbine to generator begins to revolve, accelerating quickly. Needles on gauges tremble and move upward; panel lights...
...Dinner at Eight, Kaufman and Ferber's glittering 1932 melodrama of the Depression. The countless plots revolve around a dinner party, an exercise in social climbing rendered all the sillier when the titled English guests of honor pop off to Florida hours before the soiree. While the featherbrained, steel-hearted hostess is lamenting lost social lions and lopsided lobster aspic, she fails to see that her daughter's impending marriage is on the shoals and that her husband's shipping business, the source of all the family's careless rapture, is sinking fast...
...existence of neutrinos, particles that appear in all radioactive processes. Because the elusive neutrino is essentially without mass or charge, it was difficult to pin down. Lederman calculates that a single neutrino has only a fifty-fifty chance of being deflected when streaming through 100 million miles of solid steel. The young physicists used the powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed...
Guernsey has been arrested four times in the past year, he said, but will continue to lobby for his cause. "It's not fun going without food for 25 days, and it's not fun sitting on a steel cot in a D.C. jail, but it's not fun sleeping on a park bench or living in a shelter, either. So I'll continue to do this...