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...glue" the retina to the back of the eye ball after it has become detached (for reasons unknown), a condition that may quickly lead to blindness. By one of science's quirks, another recent treatment for retinal detachment involved use of the laser beam to produce a pinpoint of tremendous heat...
...this country have often speculated that extraterrestrial beings might try to communicate with other worlds by simple patterns of powerful radio waves. Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor, won the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery that atomic hydrogen in space radiates signals, allowing scientists to pinpoint the location of the transmitting body. Lilley speculated that Russian astronomers applied Purcell's discovery to their own observations and reasoned that intelligent beings in space with knowledge of radio transmission techniques were trying to tell others of their existence...
...actual wartime crisis to fit a ludicrous tale of espionage. At the outset, the film seeks to establish its authenticity by popping in at 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Churchill (Patrick Wymark) asks Duncan Sandys (Richard Johnson) to head Operation Crossbow, an Anglo-American unit assigned to pinpoint and destroy Germany's V-1 buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard...
...statistical fact that heavy cigarette smokers are more likely to die of lung cancer than are nonsmokers has been known for years, but no one has yet been able to pinpoint the process by which smoking exerts its lethal effect. That the death rate from cancer of the bladder is more than three times as high for smokers as for nonsmokers has been recognized more recently, and it has seemed even more difficult to explain. Yet, ironically, it is the hard to explain bladder cancers that have backed up statistics by yielding the first biochemical evidence that smoking...
Died. Harry Stuhldreher, 63, quarterback of Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen backfield, the 5 ft. 7 in. "little general" whose pinpoint passes, shrewd field tactics and shin-splitting blocks led the Fighting Irish to 27 victories in 30 games from 1922 to 1924, and won for him a place on Walter Camp's 1924 All-America team-the only one of the four to make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left...