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...trick is done with a massive trailer that the Air Force calls a "zero length launcher." Normally used to launch Martin Matador guided missiles, the trailer has folding. steel arms that slant the missile upward so its powerful rocket motors can skim it into the air. The same apparatus, only slightly modified, has been found to work with full-size, inhabited jet planes...
...brilliance of a dim "picture." It can be done in the innards of electron tubes, but only in ways that are unsatisfactory. The ideal is a system that will brighten an optical image-with all its lights and shadows-just as sound is strengthened by a public-address apparatus...
Last week the whole apparatus made both Time and Newsweek, and since then the calls have come rolling in, one a minute, so fast that Mrs. Emery is on busier the ever trying to keep the machine clear for new messages. And to make matters worse, she now has to contend with a conglomeration of illegitimate creatures: Bald eagles with brief eases, Salton stall birds, and pink ducks with blue stripes, all reported anonymously. The finishing blow, however, was supplied by the up-to-date machine itself when it collapsed last week under the unnerving load of bird inquiries...
...clouds pass by, but they leave radioactive particles that work their way into the samples the scientists are trying to test in their laboratories. The particles have not been strong enough, so far, to be dangerous to human health, but they make the delicate apparatus give false readings...
...Harvard's Blood Characterization Laboratory. Key to this success is a refinement of the late Edwin J. Cohn's fractionation machine, which used to fill a 32-ft. trailer (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950) and has now been squeezed down to the size of a dishwasher. This uncanny apparatus has been adapted and taught to wash the glycerin from the red cells without damaging them. With this machine, Dr. Tullis believes, the life of red cells can be extended well beyond two years. So far, only six of the new machines have been built, but as they become generally...