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...bureaucratic wallflower some would dearly like her to be. This week she is scheduled to appear again before Bob Giaimo's House Budget Committee and give her colleagues' views on the economy's course for the rest of 1977. Her outlook will probably be much less radiant than the official Administration forecast-and thus cause for yet another round of muttering by agitated politicians...
Because of its rapid rate of growth and increased blood supply, a tumor is hotter than normal tissue and hence gives off more radiant energy. Thermography, or heat scanning, concentrates on looking for infra-red radiation to find tumors. But such waves are rapidly absorbed by bodily tissue; thus tumors that lie any distance below the skin's surface cannot be readily picked up by infra-red sensors. By contrast, microwaves-which are much longer and more penetrating-can locate tumors up to 10 cm. (4 in.) below the surface...
...Speaking of child's play, the Oxford St. Day Care Center, one of Harvard's seven, is leaving its present location because of increased radiation emanating from a cyclotron located here. If you see any radiant kids around...
...appears in the hotel dining room looking perfect and is promptly mobbed. A woman named Ruby asks for Dolly's autograph. Dolly signs. An hour and many autographs later, Ruby gets up to leave. Dolly yells, "Bye, Ruby. Have a nice day." Ruby is radiant...
While the entire Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) troupe should be laved in a shower of praise, the master builder of this exercise in high style rates top honors. British Director Frank Dunlop (Sherlock Holmes, Scapino) has assembled in the borough of Brooklyn the kind of radiant acting company that Robert Morley promises to U.S. tourists who fly to London. This is the nucleus of an American counterpart to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the British National Theater. Let us pray for its robust survival. T.E. Kalem