Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubbed Noses. Both Editor Evjue and Rebel Parker saw eye to eye on one thing. They had no use for Wisconsin's 40-year-old Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, an ex-Marine tailgunner who, in 1946, had defeated Evjue's good friend, Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. In 1947 Parker dug up, and Evjue delightedly splashed across his front page, the fact that McCarthy had been compelled to fork over some $3,500 in back income taxes on stock-market profits when the Treasury disallowed some of his deductions. Last week, it was Senator McCarthy...
Fooling the Eye. Stripped of technical embroidery, the basic theory of color television is fairly simple. Even a black & white television picture is an optical illusion. All there is on the screen at any instant is a fast-moving bright spot that "scans" back & forth, covering the whole screen with 525 lines of light which the slow-reacting human eye (if not brought too close) sees as a picture. The pictures follow one another so fast (30 a second) that they are blended by the eye to give the illusion of motion-just as the eye blends the frames...
...phosphor" (the luminescent substance) on the tube's face glows only in white light. But in front of the receiving set's picture tube is a second spinning "color disc" (see diagram). This disc is synchronized so that a blue segment is between the tube and the eye of the viewer whenever a "blue" field is flashing on the tube. So the eye sees the field in blue. When a "red" field is on the tube, a red segment of the disc makes that frame look red. In the same way, "green" fields are made to look-green...
Next step is to combine the three colored images in the eye of the viewer. The combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...
When two U.S. doctors went to Germany last summer to check on reports that a new chemical was showing promise in treating tuberculosis, they got an eye-opener. The drug had passed the promising stage, had shown impressive results over a two-year period in the treatment of 7,000 patients. And behind its discovery and development was the potent name of Professor Gerhard Domagk, 54, who won fame-and a 1939 Nobel Prize, which the Nazis would not let him take-as top man in perfecting the sulfa drugs...