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...minutes before midnight, the Reds blew their bugles. Then they attacked, driving thick-packed herds of water buffalo before them, to clear paths through the mines and punch holes in the wire. The French put down a dense curtain of fire from light and heavy weapons, including 105-mm. howitzers; leaping, screaming, the Reds answered with machine guns, mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles. Bearcats and B-26s from Hanoi arrived to light the horrid scene with flares, to strafe the swarming guerrillas and sear them with napalm...
...Bangalore torpedoes. The terrain was high and wide open. The French had dug in, they had laid barbed wire and minefields, they had prepared their artillery to meet concerted infantry attack. Every ten minutes a plane came in from Hanoi with more ammunition, more barbed wire, land mines, 105-mm. guns, bread, brandy and wine. A few minutes later it took off again with refugees, soldiers' families, and wounded...
...Hodges' astronomical X-ray camera is mounted beneath a regulation X-ray table. Radiation passes through patient and table to strike a fluorescent screen that changes X rays into visible light. Below the fluorescent screen, light is gathered by lenses and concave mirror to be focused on 70-mm. film. The camera can take six exposures in a second...
...loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...
...telescope, which looks like an ordinary instrument without the mirror, receives radiations from free hydrogen of wave lengths of from 1 mm, to ten meters in length. According to Shapley, radio-astronomy is an entirely new and important field, in which British, Dutch, and French astronomers, as well as those of this country, are working...