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...most startling-and corniest-stunt came last. With the studio in pitch darkness, the television screen showed a radio announcer making stagy passes at one of the girls. From a balcony, an infrared projector was shooting "black light" on the stage; the all-seeing image orthicon (sensitive to infra red) was spying on the couple...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
Sight Unseen. In Buffalo, James O. Meyers bought a roll of film just to humor a business acquaintance, discovered when he finally got around to borrowing a projector that one scene showed his son at Salerno...
...Jock," who has promised to tell of some more of his more exciting experiences. The slides, in Kodachrome, run all the way from one of "Captain Jock" being carried to a cannibal's pot on a polo, to another of a very beautiful Balinese debutante, at which point the projector usually jams. "Captain Jock," who was briefly reached for comment last night, could only say that his South Sea Island trip was "very nice...
Although it is necessary to run microstats through a projector to see them in any worthwhile size, still they have the advantage of being much less costly than regular photostats. For instance, a microstats of a hundred page book, which by photostatic reproduction, would cost about 22 dollars, is only two dollars...