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...carried out by "night hunters," teams of helicopters equipped with a new sniper's scope, called a Starlight, that can see in the dark and cannot be deceived by the enemy. Unlike the older infrared scope, which sought the enemy by heat detection but gave off a detectable beam of light, the new scope amplifies light from the stars or the moon, making its targets appear as pale white images on the scope's green, radarlike screen...
...lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef up merchandising, tighten up controls on distribution, expand outside New England. All that makes outgoing President Pierce beam. "The market is there," says he, "if we get off our duffs. But we couldn't continue to carry the costs of operating alone...
...roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists at Block Associates in Cambridge, Mass., produced two of the clearest spectrograms ever obtained of Venus...
...Austro-Hungarian empire, grew up in New York's Lower East Side and went on from a Ph.D. at Columbia University to become one of the nation's pioneer nuclear researchers, ended 37 years of teaching at Columbia. A 1944 Nobel prizewinner, Rabi developed the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance theories that laid the foundation for microwave radar, lasers, masers and modern radio astronomy. He was a consultant to the Manhattan Project that built the first atom bomb, and was one of the men responsible for creating the famed Brookhaven National Laboratory. Rabi also helped make Columbia...
...popular notion of a no-hitter is a thing of beauty: a stouthearted pitcher smoking the ball down the alley with laser-beam control. The Baltimore Orioles' Steve Barber, 28, a fastballing lefthander who in six years with the Orioles has compiled an eminently respectable 91-66 won-lost record, almost lived up to that notion three weeks ago. While beating the California Angels 3-0, he rarely allowed a ball out of the infield, walked only three men, and came within two outs of pitching the season's first no-hitter...