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Long-range studies of earth disturbances are planned in the U.S., Japan and Russia. Geophysicists will place ultrasensitive instruments deep in the earth. In such studies, tiltmeters will measure shifts in the position of vast subsurface areas, and, ideally, laser devices will be able to measure micro scopic expansion and contraction of bedrock, while strain seismographs monitor the kind of subsurface stress and crust slippage that occurs in fault zones...
...east jet stream and near mountain ranges, where cold air frequently spills at great speed down the leeward slopes. Although the turbulence is obvious to any pilot caught in it, it cannot be seen by the human eye. Attempts to detect CAT with devices that bounce radar or laser beams against it have so far proved either impractical or inconclusive...
...popular notion of a no-hitter is a thing of beauty: a stouthearted pitcher smoking the ball down the alley with laser-beam control. The Baltimore Orioles' Steve Barber, 28, a fastballing lefthander who in six years with the Orioles has compiled an eminently respectable 91-66 won-lost record, almost lived up to that notion three weeks ago. While beating the California Angels 3-0, he rarely allowed a ball out of the infield, walked only three men, and came within two outs of pitching the season's first no-hitter...
...abstraction. To accomplish this, he built his Luminage Projector from two standard Buhl "Carrousel" projectors, altering their machinery so that a full complement of 160 slides would modulate gradually, "sensuously," in one continuous cycle. To achieve his abstract patterns, he painted the slides with transparent chemicals, then aimed a laser beam at some, bombarded others with gamma rays in a reactor to alter their stress patterns. The nudes were photographed in light cast through the slides; their bodies are not painted...
...frugal mark of the proprietor runs deep at McDonnell's 408-acre, 30-building headquarters and plant. There are no frills amid the tangle of boxlike brick offices, glass-clad research laboratories and steel-walled hangars. Scientists experiment with laser beams and gamma rays in basement rooms so jammed with costly equipment that it is difficult to walk about. Executives often labor in windowless cubbyholes. But there are no audible complaints. McDonnell spends weeks and months scouting out able men, screens them with such painstaking care that he is rarely forced to fire anybody. Though he delves into everything from...