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...high-yield H-bombs of the current test program were dropped from aircraft and exploded high above the surface. Thus their fireballs did not concentrate their fury on a small area of coral, but spread it over miles of water. As a result, not much pulverized material was carried upward. The total radioactivity produced by such a bomb may be large, but most of the potential fallout is distributed high in the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine particles or even single molecules. Such impalpable stuff is slow to fall. Not much would fall in any one place...
...contestants turned back. To Paul, the problem seemed familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record: 43,000 ft). Patiently he tacked back and forth, working his way upward, riding air currents as buoyantly as a beach boy on a surfboard. Once over the crest, he slid easily downward to the French naval airfield at Hyères, just eleven miles east of Toulon. No other glider got close...
Kameo Ito, chief of the government's Yamagata meteorological observatory, bases his theory on a close study of the air waves from U.S. and Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
...trade deficit. The demand for goods of all kinds by the well-heeled Canadian consumer, as well as increased wages, is tending to raise prices. Although the cost-of-living index has held fairly steady since the first of the year, there are signs that it may be heading upward. Bread prices increased 1? a loaf last week; soft-drink dealers added a penny a bottle; brand-name coffee rose to $1.27 a pound...
...government has already taken action to curb some of the spending. Central-bank interest rates have been moved steadily upward to 3%, and the order has gone out to chartered banks to tighten mortgage money for business and home loans. Businessmen and builders whose plans have been stalled by the credit curbs have protested, but the government has no intention of loosening up the supply of money. To all appearances, the present flow is ample to keep the economy expanding...