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Heart of the system is an artificially grown crystal of cadmium sulphide, which acts as a sort of amplifier tube when excited by X radiation. It multiplies by 1,000,000 the energy it gets from X rays so the X-ray generator can be weak, cheap, safe...
Douglas MacArthur, perhaps chastened by recent experiences, balanced his crystal ball neatly between optimism and pessimism. On his eighth visit to the battle zone, MacArthur discounted Chinese Nationalist reports that the Chinese Communists, disgusted by the nonarrival of Soviet air support, were pulling out of Korea. Said MacArthur: "The entire military might of Communist China is available against this relatively small command." But he deplored "loose talk" to the effect that the U.N. forces might be pushed out of Korea. "No one," he said, "is going to drive us into...
...anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then I came to what I'm doing now . . . I want these heads to be as brilliant as neon lights, to be in the air between you and the black background, like...
Meanwhile, the Red Chinese delegation to the U.N. was still making its leisurely way toward Lake Success, by way of Moscow. By terms which the Chinese Reds had made crystal clear, they were going to Lake Success to discuss only two matters: their charges of U.S. aggression in Formosa, and their charges of U.S. aggression in Korea...
...been no flight, the Lama was still in Lhasa. "The Tibetan government," formally announced India's Ministry of External Affairs, "is greatly distressed by the wild rumors emanating from Kalimpong. The military situation as depicted from Kalimpong has no, repeat no, relation to the facts." Caught at their crystal-gazing, U.P.'s Sharma and others hastily reported that the Lama's "attempted flight" had been "prevented." But the Times of India did the neatest job of explaining: "A thick, almost impenetrable fog of rumor and fiction hangs over events transpiring on the Roof of the World...