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Armed with picks, dynamite, ropes and spidery wire ladders, the French speleologists pushed deep into both these geological intestinal tracts. During the German occupation they set out each time with stealth, lest their odd-looking apparatus interest the Gestapo. But whenever they reached the secret innards of the mountain, they knew they were safe from human interference. Little by little they explored the underground labyrinth. At last they discovered that if they enlarged a narrow passage between two tunnels, they could break the Italian depth record. Last week they...
...apparatus for administering electric shock at home. Heart disease, paralysis, cancer, tuberculosis and polio were among the diseases it was alleged to "cure." It might, at that: its voltages could easily cause death...
...business management of the University's $100,000,000 worth of buildings, and their contents in classroom and laboratory equipment, books, museum collections, and other apparatus, Reynolds reported that it "takes people as well as money." Non-academic personnel here now number over 3,500 men and women...
...sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means to reduce the status of the House to that...
...Hughes radar, like all others, sends out brief bursts of high-frequency radio waves both ahead of the plane and below it. When these echo back from the ground (or from the sea or buildings), a receiving apparatus measures the time the waves take to make the round trip. If any return quickly enough to indicate that an obstacle is within 2,000 ft. from the airplane, a bell rings and a bright light flashes in the cockpit. The pilot can then pull into a climb in time to avoid any "terrain" hidden in the overcast (see diagram...