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...Hindu maharanee or a toothless hillbilly, she takes her assorted lumps and pratfalls with unflagging zest and good humor. Her mobile, rubbery face reflects a limitless variety of emotions, from maniacal pleasure to sepulchral gloom. Even on a flickering, pallid TV screen, her wide-set saucer eyes beam with the massed candlepower of a lighthouse on a dark night...
Last week the National Bureau of Standards was proclaiming that high-frequency waves do reflect from the ionosphere and can get around the earth's curve. The bureau got the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to slant a powerful beam of 49.8 megacycle waves into the air in the direction of its own Radio Laboratory at Sterling, Va. The distance between transmitter and receiver is about 800 miles, so the signal might be expected to come through only in freakish bursts...
...dash to Chicago and a huge fire in the grain elevators kept the action moving. The fire swung from beam to beam, as its roar came through the loud speaker. Tiny firemen hurled huge geysers of water, in a futile attempt to stop the blaze...
...Beam. A pictorial computer for instrument flying is ready for production by Arma Corp., subsidiary of American Bosch Corp. Up till now, a pilot flying blind has had to figure out his position from radio data. The new, 37-lb. device picks up the data, computes it automatically and continuously plots a plane's exact position on a 10-in. luminous screen...
...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...