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...Roosevelt Raceway management did all it could to make the customers comfortable. Crews worked around the clock to clear 7 in. of snow from the track and the 250-acre parking lot (at a cost of $10,000); 146 infra-red heaters burned above the seats, and low-pressure blowers swirled lukewarm air around the feet of the standees in back...
...quarter-century until a year ago, when a restorer at London's Thomas Agnew & Sons began to remove the scummy varnish. Was it Raphael's famous Madonna di Loreto of around 1510, known through more than 30 existing copies and through art-history references? X-ray and infra-red photography at London's Courtauld Institute probed its veil of oils, and now the best experts that Agnew can find say cautiously that the work seems to be an authentic Raphael. "The lightning strikes," said Getty. But, he adds, "I wouldn't dream of selling...
Honeywell's researchers have developed infra-red sensing tubes that can detect a frying pan's heat from five miles away - or spy out a distant rocket - and a humidity register so sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with...
Danger of eye-burn from infra-red radiation cannot be over-emphasized, however. Smoked or dark glasses are inadequate protection for the eyes, and use of them often leads to serious eye damage...
...West have benefited enormously from far more modern devices. It is now possible to eavesdrop on a conversation held in the middle of an empty prairie by simply pointing a beam of light from 500 yards away. New cameras can take pictures in total darkness without the use of infra-red light. Finely ground lenses can zoom in from blocks away to pick up the fine print on an insurance policy. But the Soviets like the more old-fashioned and romantic gadgets, mostly, it seems, from a native passion for melodrama...