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With the aid of Bausch & Lomb tech nicians, Dr. Kapany made up several glass-fiber bundles, each of them containing up to a quarter of a million individual strands a thousandth of an inch in diame ter. So long as he kept the fiber's ends in the same relative position at each end of the bundle, he found that he could pass exact images through the flexible bundles even when they were tied in knots...
...Carl S. (for Swift) Hallauer, 60, was elected president of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. A sports fan and part-time politico (he is known as Rochester's "Mr. Republican"), Hallauer made an early mark in business by setting up one of the country's first employee recreation programs for Eastman Kodak. Bausch & Lomb wanted one like it, hired him in 1919 as industrial relations director, and later salesman. In 1931, he persuaded the late Al Smith to put Bausch & Lomb coin-operated telescopes atop the Empire State Building. In 1935 he was made sales vice...
...Three-D movies, apart from their artistic value, can be a blessing to the U.S. moviegoer, says Reuel A. Sherman, stereo-vision specialist at Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.: "Between 12 and 15% of the public have eye problems that they will become aware of for the first time by watching 3-D . . . Anyone who comes out of a 3-D movie groggy shouldn't blame the picture...
...appears almost inevitable." It is definitely not inevitable, and there is good reason to believe that watching 3-D movies, properly photographed and properly projected, is easier on the eyes than watching a conventional "flat" or 2-D movie . . . Before a meeting of our society . . . Reuel A. Sherman, Bausch & Lomb's occupational vision specialist declared that various forms of 3-D have been used since 1895 for therapeutic and visual training purposes, and he predicted that technically good 3-D movies will have a profoundly beneficial impact on vision...
...next year, Bausch & Lomb intends to rejigger its ruling engine, guard it even more closely, and turn out even bigger gratings, just as fine...