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...save about $225 million this year by using isotopes in a dozen ways. Refineries employ them to trace the flow of catalysts through craeking plants, Isotopes serve as tireless sentinels to warn of hidden leaks in pipes, as sensitive controls to separate oil from gasoline in pipelines. Oilmen merely insert a shot of an isotope after each batch is pumped in; when the radioactive cocktail reaches interchange points, the isotope automatically activates valves that shunt the crude and the gasoline in proper directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WONDERFUL ISOTOPE--: A New Tool for the Atomic Age | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...with tissue injections of which U.S. surgeons strongly disapprove, costs $55 to $83. The Jujin surgeons' success is attested by the fact that they do 20,000 cosmetic operations a year-70% on the eyelids, 20% to build up the bridge of the nose, often with a plastic insert (which costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gaining Face in Japan | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: First Returns | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Baltic. Dexter's coal reached Newcastle in the middle of a coal strike; his profits were "enormous." Most memorable, however, is his treatise, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, which is unpunctuated throughout but in later printings contains a page of mixed punctuation marks for the reader to insert wherever he pleases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man's Last Chance | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Yardling conservatives managed to insert a clause specifying that long socks be worn with the shorts, but several committeemen still were not satisfied. "The wearing of trousers is the last thread of tradition left at Harvard," protested Robert J. Wyman '60. Harvard Union officials still must approve the rule change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Committeemen Strike at Tradition | 4/26/1957 | See Source »

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