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The technique was first used for examining welds and joints in everything from bridges to nuclear submarines. Then Technical Operations, Inc. of Burlington, Mass, helped Eastern solve the problem of getting radiographic equipment into the hollow rotor shaft of jet engines by using a 100-curie capsule of iridium 192...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radiography: X Rays for Engine Innards | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Hoover traveled the world as a doctor of sick mines. At 24, he was chief engineer of China's Bureau of Mines, and a living legend; he was known as "the foreign mandarin" with "green eyes" that could pierce the earth. He advised the Russian Czar on the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: The Humanitarian | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

The reader who stops short of seeing Davis as tragic must admit that he was an extraordinary man, whose best quality was an inflexible devotion to principle. Davis had been a minor but authentic hero of the Mexican War, an exemplary Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce and, up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Justice for a Rebel | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

SUE PIERCE Cut Off, La.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

Married. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, 40, Manhattan model, ex-wife of the Marquess of Milford Haven; and James Busch Orthwein, 40, St. Louis adman, great-grandson of the original Gussie (Budweiser) Busch; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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