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...artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...
...balls. At nearby Oak Ridge he persuaded scientists to inject three golf balls with pellets of radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last week, as Miss Gatlinburg of 1955 posed prettily on the first tee, a blindfolded caddy, toting a borrowed Geiger counter, demonstrated that a radioactive golf ball could be found no matter how deep the grass or how dense the bushes off the fairway. For all Booster Leiper's pride, however, the atomic golf ball was still only an experiment. Even if the Atomic Energy Commission approved their manufacture...
...convention. The resolution ,urged Ike to run. When McWhorter finished reading it in the perfectly enunciated tones of a network announcer, Ike's comment was: "Well, you got through all of that perfectly." Later in the week, as he toured through New Hampshire, Ike set the political Geiger counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (who turned out in Bermuda-length shorts to play golf with Ike at Whitefield's Mountain View...
URANIUM FEVER has hit the huge Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., soon to build a $168 million pipeline from New Mexico's San Juan gas field to West Coast markets (TIME, Dec. 27). Workmen laying pipe through uranium-rich eastern Utah-western Colorado plateau area will be equipped with Geiger counters so that Pacific Northwest will not risk bypassing any promising ore vein...
...Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell cooked up some glass spiked with radioactive scandium and ground it down until its particles were the same size as the Thames silt. Two drums of the hot stuff were dumped by derrick on the bottom of the Thames. Then scientists armed with Geiger counters traced the movement of the radioactive particles. Some of them were found eleven miles upstream, confirming the worst suspicions of the Port of London Authority...