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...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...
...Please forgive this pencil, but if you could send me . . ." From Korea and U S training camps, letters with this sort of opening are streaming into Hollywood again, asking for pinups. The requests are already up 400% over the normal peacetime demand...
...PENCIL OF GOD (204 pp.)-Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin -Houghton Mifflin...
Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
...late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead on his boy's grave. Voodoo has done its work-or as Diogène's half-Christian uncle sums everything up, "The pencil of God has no eraser...