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Picture Highlights of the Year DEATH OF A HOPE. The road back to scientific supremacy is long and rocky. First \J. S. attempts to launch an artificial Earth satellite failed as Vanguard test vehicle exploded on the launching pad. U. S. prestige throughout the world hit a new low CHEIVUCAl MUSCLES FOR U. S. The chemical in- dustry is in the forefront of the U. S.'s comeback efforts. Distillation columns at Olin Mathieson's Niagara Falls, Ν. Υ., plant will be used in producing new boron- based high energy fuel for use in jets and missiles FOR SCIENCE-Α B'SGER VOICE Tirst step towaid building a top le ci science team came when President Eisenhowci named James R. Killian Ji to the new post of Special Assistant to the Piesident foi Science and Technology 136 C&EN JAN. 6, 1958

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Picture Highlights of the Year

DEATH OF A HOPE. The road back to scientific supremacy is long and rocky. First \J. S. attempts to launch an artificial Earth satellite failed as Vanguard test vehicle exploded on the launching pad. U. S. prestige throughout the world hit a new low

CHEIVUCAl MUSCLES FOR U. S. The chemical in­dustry is in the forefront of the U. S.'s comeback efforts. Distillation columns at Olin Mathieson's Niagara Falls, Ν. Υ., plant will be used in producing new boron-based high energy fuel for use in jets and missiles

FOR SCIENCE-Α B'SGER VOICE Tirst step towaid building a top le ci science team came when President Eisenhowci named James R. Killian Ji to the new post of Special Assistant to the Piesident foi Science and Technology

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POLYETHYLENE A-PLENTY. U. S. low-pressure-process polyethylene capacity got a hypo as 1957 ended. W. R. Grace's $18 million, 50 million pound Phillips-type olefin polymer plant at Baton Rouge, La., went on stream

>̂ ATOMIC MILESTONE. Shippingport atomic power plant, world's first full-scale civilian nuclear power plant, is now providing 60,000 kw. to the Pittsburgh area

A DREAM FADES· A technical success but an eco­nomic failure was the world's first plant for making synthetic gasoline and aromatics from natural gas.

Amoco Chemical's plant at Brownsville, Texas, closed when operations showed it couldn't make gasoline and chemicals at a competitive price

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