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...first few weeks were not so bad: the wind kept up, pushing him westward day by day, and life on the raft had not yet become grey, leaden monotony. But then the wind died away. For the next 27 days he just drifted, only now & then catching a faint breeze. Cheerful by nature, he often sank into deep troughs of depression as he looked out at the ever-empty horizon. Fortunately, there were daily chores to be done: fishing, keeping the log, plotting his position, measuring and recording his blood pressure and corpuscle counts. Fish were plentiful, especially flying fish...
...estimated 150,000 people in the U.S. who are not truly blind have to be treated as if they were, because they have so little useful vision that ordinary spectacles yield them only a faint, blurred image. This week, Columbia University's inventive optometrist, Dr. William Feinbloom, announced that he had found a way to restore workaday vision to about half these patients so that they can read newspapers, watch TV or even do precision work in factories...
...first germanium transistor, they knew they had found a long-awaited short cut through the great glass jungle of the electronics age (TIME, Feb. 11). With the ease of the old-fashioned carborundum crystal, it can change alternating current to direct; and like a vacuum tube, it can amplify faint, fluctuating currents. But where the vacuum tube is often bulky, fragile and uses large amounts of power, the rugged little transistor, no bigger than a thumbnail, works on minute amounts of energy. Last week in Princeton, N.J., the Radio Corp. of America demonstrated just how far transistors have come toward...
...Miserable War. A yard from the summit the two sergeants froze. Just ahead, almost within touching distance, a Chinese stood vaguely silhouetted against the dark sky. They tensed to tackle him; their mission was to bring back a prisoner. But in that split second, warned by smell or some faint sound, the Chinese touched the trigger of his burp gun. Main shot the prisoner-to-be instantly and regretfully with his .45, but the second sergeant rolled backward down the hill with an astounded gasp, slugs in his arm, leg and belly. After that the night was noisy with gunfire...
...Chicago, Dr. Paul C. Hodges, has turned a Schmidt-type telescope into a highly efficient camera for making X-ray pictures of the human abdomen. The simplified system of lenses and concave mirror that can photograph the dimmest starlight is being used for quick, sharp snapshots of a faint, fluorescent screen...