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High Spy. Sharp-eyed aerial cameras, such as those that enabled the U-2 to chart thousands of square miles of the Soviet Union, have also moved into the realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal...
...Communist guerrillas have shown signs of getting bolder. Last week TIME Correspondent Murray Gart, to get his own look at the war, flew on 26 helicopter missions in five days (three of his choppers were hit by gunfire), came away with the story of a plan for stepped-up aerial strikes against the Reds and some grim impressions of the fighting in general. Cart's report...
...chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger." "Anybody else get hit?" "You got a fat lip there, boy." During another mission, an aerial attack on two companies of Viet Cong dug into foxholes near the difricult-to-patrol Cambodian border, some of the ground fire came from across a river that separates Viet Nam from "neutral" Cambodia-a river that one American adviser bitterly calls "our own private Yalu." Dismal Seen e. Despite...
...slouch at dramatizing psychological injuries. In one case that has become a legal classic, Belli represented a California fireman who became psychotic after he was injured when a truck rammed the fire engine he was riding. To re-create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other witnesses...
Everywhere archaeologists, armed with all the advantages of modern science, are extending the geography of history. Aerial cameras detect the faint outlines of long-demolished walls; delicate airborne magnetometers ferret out forgotten fortifications; measurements of minute bits of carbon establish accurate dates back beyond any written record. Mummies are submitted to autopsy for a knowledge of ancient diseases. Fossilized grains of pollen testify to the climate in which they grew. Reused writing materials, called palimpsests, are irradiated with ultraviolet light and reveal words that were erased thousands of years...