Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When the time came for the real test last week, Polaris and her crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door atop a missile tube swung open. A small, explosive charge ruptured the plastic membrane that protected the bird from sea water, and a great blast of compressed air sent it rocketing toward the surface and its remarkable flight...
...stage a crash operation." From 10 capitals he got pledges of emergency food supplies, and from Washington, Moscow and London, he obtained promises to provide the planes to deliver the supplies. From East and West he summoned veterans of other U.N. enterprises to help keep the docks open, the water pure, the lights lit, the trains running...
...despite all reasonable precautions, the baby is defective, today's surgery and medicine offer far more hope of alleviating the condition than before World War II. Many severe abnormalities in and around the heart, once crippling and eventually fatal, are now corrected by daring surgery. "Water on the brain" (hydrocephalus) can be drained away by ingenious valves and tubes...
Gases to Protein. Astronomers believe that the atmosphere of the early, lifeless earth had no free oxygen in it, but was made of gases like methane, hydrogen and ammonia. Scientists have also proved that when this gaseous mixture is put in a flask with a little water in the bottom, and an electric discharge is passed through it, the chemical reaction produces an accumulation of amino acids in the water. Since amino acids are the building blocks out of which proteins are made, and proteins are the chemical framework of all life on earth, the first chemical step toward life...
...heated them gently. He got "proteinoids" that behave very much like proteins found in nature. They are digested by natural enzymes and eaten by bacteria. If polyphosphoric acid is added to the mix, the reaction takes place at only 160° F., well below the boiling point of water...