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...most U.S. companies, the quality-control department is apt to be a laboratory where technicians happily ruin a random sample of products by tearing, pulling, bending or melting them to see if they meet set standards. But in today's rapidly advancing technology, where the products are often too complex or too expensive to test by such methods, industry's scientists are turning to a new and promising science called nondestructive testing. They are using X rays, ultrasonics, magnetic pa ticles, dyes and tracer gases to spy out flaws and weaknesses that affect quality or safety - and doing...
...scientist outside professional concern are apt to be more interesting. A humanities lecturer may on occasion present the results of fresh researches to freshmen; but in the Natural Sciences only graduate school courses are "creative" for the teacher. Untrained undergraduates and scientists simply do not speak the same language...
Onto the screen came a sadly familiar figure. "That," said Rose, "is Mr. Chamberlain with his famous umbrella. It's so apt to rain over there; you should carry one of those plastic umbrellas with you when you go. Mr. Chamberlain's position was not understood in this country. He did the best he could under difficult circumstances...
...another, American intellectuals are apt to complain about being lost. Nelson Algren is the lost American of his own story, but it cannot be that no one knows where he is; the uproar he creates is deafening...
Critics say that the common standards enforced are apt to be low ones, and blame franchise operations for both the bland sameness of food and service and the repetitive look of the neon-and-chrome shacks and stands that dot the nation's roadsides. The U.S. Justice Department argues that the parceling out of exclusive sales territories by franchisers violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. But franchising won a key legal victory this spring, when the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment against exclusive franchised territories. The case, which returns to a U.S. district court...