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...Tyco Laboratories, Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has developed a laser that seems to have the necessary simplicity. Invented by Drs. A. I. Mlavsky and L. B. Griffiths, it is a .02-in. cube of silicon carbide (carborundum), 4Two opposite sides are carefully polished, and electrodes are attached to antfcher two. When a weak direct current of electricity is passed through the cube, a thin line in its center glows with green-blue light. But this is not pure laser light. It is merely ordinary mixed-up light of varying frequencies. When the current passes a critical strength...
Cold Fire. Italian refrigerator makers have become so efficient that last year they grabbed 22.5% of refrigerator sales in France, which quickly forgot the togetherness of the Common Market and threw up temporary tariff walls. Such firms as Fiat, Zanussi, Zoppas and Indesit have cashed in on the ice-cube boom by turning to making refrigerators, but none of them have been able to match the success of the Ignis Co., which has risen from obscurity to become Italy's biggest refrigerator producer. With sales of $65 million (a third from exports), Ignis now accounts...
...pseudo-Georgian look, however, was not restricted to the Houses. Virtually everything built in the Lowell years, including the Indoor Athletic Building, surely the world's largest Georgian cube, was designed in this style. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott, then the regular University architects, pandered to their ancestors more than to art; but if not creative, at least their buildings are comfortable and outwardly attractive...
...Sabin live virus is taken orally, mixed with a syrup, on a sugar cube, or in a bonbon. Within one day it multiplies in the intestines, preventing the entry of the natural virus and protecting against non-paralytic polio, neither of which the Salk vaccine can do. Although one does of oral vaccine immunizes indefinitely against any one type of virus, three doses are needed for Types I, II, and III. The live virus, while too weak to attack the nerve tissue or produce symptoms of disease, causes the human host to produce the necessary antibodies. Furthermore, the virus retains...
...case of de Gaulle, it is last year's critique which is accurate. Since 1958 de Gaulle has constantly flanked the U.S. on the "right," just as the British have flanked us on the "left." From the French viewpoint there was grave concern when Khrushchev, during the Cube missiles crisis, opened a private pipeline which bypassed the Western allies and went straight to Kennedy. Now Kennedy, after dropping Skybolt without informing the British, is putting through the same pipeline a test ban treaty which the French don't like and on which they are not being consulted. Under these circumstances...