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...Chicago, the Argonne National Laboratory perfected a new radiation-detector which is smaller than a cigarette, weighs only a quarter of an ounce, can be worn on clothing like a fountain...
...well trained. Once again I see refugees on this road. But there's a difference. Our own men, marines, surround them. As the jeep comes toward them I witness something of an advance in American communication with the people of the country. A marine is passing a mine detector over the clothing and packs of the refugees. Any metal-a rifle barrel, a pistol, a clip of ammunition, maybe the parts of a radio-will presumably be spotted by the detector. Anyhow, it is better than guns and the policemen whom I have seen at work...
...mine detector, the helicopters, the boy on the roadside-here, after a fashion, was communication between the American West and the people of South Korea. And, so thinking, I reflected as the jeep bumped into Pusan that the machine age and the machine man of the West can be pretty wonderful. But machines still can't talk to people, not as we must learn-and learn very soon-to talk to the people of Asia...
...unit, a $200, bright-red version of the Gl mine-detector, was purchased because turn - of - the - century plumbers were illiterate and could not record where they had laid their pipes, Robinson said, "Now," he added, "every time a squirrel runs down a drain and clogs it up, the plumbers have to dig up half of Cambridge to find the trouble...
With the new electronic locator, Robinson claims all the problems of location are solved. When a leak or clogged pipe develops, a man with the detector walks over the suspected area systematically, listening to a buzzing sound through earphones attached to the detector's receiver. As he walks over a buried pipe the buzzing increases in intensity...