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...CRIMSON will not be published tomorrow, the 311th anniversary of the great explosion at Delft...
Trombone to Test Tube. A quietly disciplined scholar whose interests range from Arctic hunting expeditions to collecting Delft pottery, California-born Monty Spaght earned his way to a Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford with the help of a dance-band trombone. He hated his first job as a research chemist at a Shell refinery but overcame his feelings sufficiently to become the company's top research and development man before he was named executive vice president in 1953. As president of the New York Economic Club, Spaght only two weeks ago introduced British Prime Minister Wilson to a star...
Painful Brilliance. Manufactured by the Old Delft optical company in Holland, Dr. Bouwers' night eye was originally designed to brighten the dim pictures on doctors' fluoroscopes, to give a good look at a patient's internal organs without the need for powerful and dangerous doses of X rays. But soon after the first tests, the military showed an understandable and urgent interest. For the night eye needs no artificial light source, like the snooperscopes of World War II, which merely detected the reflections of infrared light shot out by the scopes themselves. The Dutch device is built...
Working with the Aerojet-General Corp. of the U.S., Old Delft is aiming at an expanding military market. Plans for the night eyes are still secret, but they would be a welcome addition to Marine landing craft, the rugged little boats that would be so much more versatile if they could be equipped to see their way toward an unfamiliar enemy beach in the dark...
Finally, an enormous, 700-ton steel "guillotine" floodgate has been constructed on the Hollandsche Ijssel River. The huge gates can be clamped down on eight minutes notice when approaching tidal surges threaten the lowlands around The Hague and Delft, where 3,500,000 Dutchmen live. Expected completion of the entire Delta Plan...