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...compress bandage and a package of shell wound dressing. Those with the inclination can buy sextants, litters, bayonets, shoulder holsters, jungle hammocks, gas masks and policemen's billies. Central no longer sells dog sleds, as it once did, but the suspicious purchaser in the market for a mine detector is its ideal customer...
Some time in 1966, if U.S. space exploration sticks to schedule, a strange device the size of a milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin a search for life. The detector will not be looking for bug-eyed monsters or giant, exotic plants. It will be satisfied with nothing more than a faint, fluorescent glow in its own compartmented innards...
Known as a "multivator" (for multiple evaluator), the life detector was developed by Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Stanford University's Nobel-winning geneticist, Physicist Elliott Levinthal and Electrical Engineer Lee Hundley. In its current version, which may be further miniaturized, the multivator stands just under 10 in. tall, weighs less than 2 Ibs. But despite its small size, it is more than equal to its momentous mission...
...they do on earth. The actual identification of these creatures will have to wait for larger, more elaborate spacecraft. But in the meantime, to ensure that Mars is not contaminated by earthly microbes carried there aboard the multivator, Lederberg is working on a technique for sterilizing his life detector...
...distributed them to a select audience that included lead ers of London's Greek community. Shortly before curtain time, a false report that a bomb had been planted in the theater led to the additional spectacle of police in evening clothes combing the royal box with a mine detector...