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...tens of thousands, such diagnostic tests are now being run routinely in 80 U.S. hospitals, which have installed the machine called SMA-12 (sequential multiple analyzer, with twelve channels), produced by Technicon Instruments Corp. The saving in time and money to hospitals and patients is growing steadily...
...moon occasionally generates light of its own. During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...slump has hit hardest in Birmingham and the industrial Midlands. British Motor Corp., the industry's leader, was producing at capacity through August, when stocks of unsold cars began growing alarmingly. Now General Motors-owned Vauxhall, Rootes Motors, and Standard-Triumph as well as B.M.C. have cut work weeks to four days. B.M.C. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that 12,000 employees will be laid off early next month, "and it does not appear that they will be taken back again." Angry workers have responded with wildcat strikes, and union leaders utter dark warnings of slow downs and more...
Died. Roland Reynolds, 29, grandson of Reynolds Metals Founder Richard Reynolds, who was starting his way up the family ladder as an executive in the company's subsidiary Eskimo Pie Corp.; of head injuries suffered when he accidentally walked into the spinning propeller of a twin-engined light plane he was thinking of buying; in Richmond...
Analyzing Soviet satellites is more of a test. "You haven't the foggiest notion of what they look like when you begin," explains Electrical Engineer Charles Brindley, head of Radio Corp. of America's RSA research program. Despite the difficulties, an RCA scientist managed to use radar signature analysis as early as 1958 to describe Sputnik 2. When the Russians finally displayed a model of the satellite, it was confirmed that the sketch was remarkably accurate. It even included Sputnik's special radar reflectors-which led the U.S. to the conclusion that the Soviet tracking network included...