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...Douglas-Home put it, "the eyes of the world" last week were on rural Perthshire; but Tories' eyes were focused on a far more critical by-election this week in Luton, an automotive center 30 miles from London where experts detect a swing to Labor after 13 years of Tory majorities. As Luton goes, said the pundits, so may most other industrial areas where Labor has traditionally been strongest. Speaking more to Luton's floating voter than the faithful in Perth, the Prime Minister used every crossroads stopover last week to inveigh against the Labor Party...
After seven months the patient had enough sensation in his fingertips to detect temperature differences of two or three degrees Fahrenheit. He could write, play pingpong, pick up weights of more than 13 lbs., and wield a hammer with authority...
...individual indicates his level in a structured society. This hangs on today in terms such as "white collar" and "blue collar," though technology is rapidly making them obsolete. The machine, argue some, is promoting democracy by blurring the difference between rich and poor, since only a knowing eye can detect the difference between a Dior original and a copy. In fact, on a good-looking poor girl, the copy often looks better than the original on a rich matron. Some sociologists also find hope for international peace and understanding in the fact that men and women from all over...
...come from aerial reconnaissance cameras and systems that are useful in gathering military intelligence and would be valuable for policing disarmament. A fortnight ago, during the Operation Shoal underground nuclear blast in Nevada, an Itek nine-lens aerial camera went through its first test to see if it could detect the explosion by noting distortions on the ground below. Early results of the test, says Lindsay, are promising...
...this were proved it would give vital information about the lunar surface, where astronauts may some day land. "There are things going on in space," says Dr. Rossi, "that are still unknown. That is what so excites us. We hope that by means of X rays we can detect some of these phenomena...