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Responsibility for enforcing the cease-fire falls primarily to the two countries involved. The width of the nonfiring zone permits each to keep an eye on the other through "oblique reconnaissance." The camera-carrying planes fly high enough to photograph enemy territory without crossing the border, though some direct overflights are permitted. In addition, about 100 U.N. truce observers, who have spent most of their time since the 1967 Six-Day War ducking the Suez crossfire, remain to supervise the truce on the ground...
...Cargo. Unlike thermometers and other ordinary heat-measuring devices, thermographs do not touch or disturb the objects they photograph. They are useful tools in the growing field of nondestructive testing-analyzing a product without damaging it. Utility companies, for example, are able to uncover dangerous overheating in equipment without interrupting service...
...Cover: Color photograph of Miss Eugenie Langle, 78, by Pete Turner...
...MINISTER at the funeral has a face like a photograph that did not develop properly. Everything is blurred, his nose runs into his eyes, and his mouth seems nothing but a line behind which teeth hide. He is a Presbyterian...
...publishers should invent a new word. "In the case of first novels," Segal says, "what happens shouldn't be called publishing. 'Privishing' would be a better way to put it." Some books are sent to reviewers without even the vital publication-date information or a glossy photograph of the author, which definitely increases the chance of a review in smaller papers. Jacket copy can be cretinous. The blurbs from other writers are often elliptical and overblown ("Not since Dostoevsky . . ."), demolishing what credibility they might normally possess. The authors' capsule biographies still tend to suggest that...