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...among the worst box-office days of the year. What's more, it was also the beginning of Passover. It should have been double cyanide for the grosses. Instead, the first customers lined up at 2 a.m., and by 8, when the doors opened, the crowd was so thick that people were getting sick. The crush broke the glass on the cashier's box, and the money came in so hand-over-fist that it had to be carted off repeatedly in cardboard boxes...
...with zirconium hydride, which acts as a moderator, slowing down the high-energy neutrons released by fissioning atoms of U 235. The heat of the reactor is carried away by a sodium-potassium alloy (NaK) that turns to liquid at 48°F. A beryllium reflector 2½ in. thick bounces escaping neutrons back into the uranium and keeps the reactor operating. When four openings in the reflector are uncovered, neutrons leak away, slowing or stopping the nuclear reaction...
...tallurgique de Penarroya. For 35 years the mineowners had channeled their slag into a reservoir behind a 230-ft. earth dam. Just below the dam were the wooden huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble up a slope in time. "I could feel the muck spattering on my heels," she recalled later. "Behind me there was nothing left, absolutely nothing. Only silence...
...your report of my dance at the Albright-Knox Festival of the Arts in Buffalo [March 19]: I was not "stark naked." Both Miss Rainer and myself were covered completely with a thick coating of mineral oil. We did not simply "move across the stage in slow motion," but proceeded carefully in a rhythm too complicated to explain. Furthermore I have a stiff knee and am unable to do a great many steps. I think it is more important to realize that this dance was performed by a handicapped person rather than a naked...
...that says, 'Indulge yourself-live a little.' Drive out to the Bonfire Restaurant and have a piece of their chocolate cake. It's about a foot high. Sure, nobody needs this, but that's Miami Beach. Wolfie's delicatessen has pastrami sandwiches three inches thick -it's kind of a symbol. So if the hotels seem overplush...