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...planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
...flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...
...poor man's radar has no spinning surveillance antenna as does conventional Ground Control Approach Radar and so does not give a continuous radar-eye view of the air around the airport. Instead it shoots out only a single narrow beam of radar pulses. Guided by a direction finder, the operator swings the beam with a pair of "handle bars" until it picks up an approaching plane. A "blip" on the radar's scope tells him that he has found it. Then, keeping the plane in the scope, he "talks" it down just as operators do with more...
...Garbo. Jacobsen's fame grew with his company. Not only was he admired as a great oil finder, but in the industry's councils he won a reputation as a man who could reduce the toughest problems to their essentials, reassemble them in simple, common-sense answers. Like the mysterious catalysts which speed up oil refining, Jacobsen made things go smoothly. The fact that he was not tied up with any of the major companies made them, as well as the independents, trust him. He was sought for the industry's toughest assignments. For example, when...
...Well, I hope to hear from you soon . . . You mention offering no reward to the finder of the bottle. Well, I ask no reward, as it was a very pleasant surprise. Wishing you very good luck, your loving friend...