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People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 Americans fall into this category; to help them see, Manhattan Optometrist Dr. William Feinbloom has developed "reading binoculars" that magnify 3.5 times and enable many of the legally blind who are not totally sightless to read with relative ease...
...aberrations. They are focused so that the lines of vision of both eyes converge at the normal reading distance of 16 inches. Since he developed the new glasses (price $300), Feinbloom has tried them out on 360 "blind" people. He has found fewer than ten whom they failed to help. Though designed especially for reading, they have proved useful in cooking, sewing, shopping-anything, says Feinbloom, that requires "good close vision...
...Flight 740 is only one segment of the FAA's 350,000-mile network of federal airways, freeways of the sky that are complete with aerial versions of warning signs, access roads, directional guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel as it passes...
...lower their sights. For most academically untrained and unmotivated students, black or white, the best that a college can expect to do is "improve their basic skills a little," give them an idea of what middle-class life is like and provide them with the diploma that could help them enter that life. College comes too late, they contend, to make "the life of the mind" either "attractive or accessible to many students who have been intellectually starved for their first 17 years...
...turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended every séance he could find; he seriously suggested that his father give him an advance on his inheritance so that he could do research with Myers' Society for Psychical Research in Britain. Daddy demurred. "We compromised on aeronautical engineering," says McDonnell...