Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That jungle firefight took place more than two years ago, but it is still remembered as one of the first successful combat tests of the "starlight scope"-one of the prying electronic gadgets developed by the Defense Department "to take the night away from Charlie." Lieut. Hibbs was well briefed on the scope's importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped...
Last week the Army finally revealed some of the technical wizardry that makes the scopes work. Unlike the World War II infantry sniperscope that illuminated its target with an infra-red beam, the starlight scope needs no light of its own. Thus it is undetectable by enemy sensors. It uses only natural light, no matter how dim-moonlight, starlight, even the faint luminescence of decaying jungle foliage. Capable of amplifying light up to 40,000 times, it literally treats the darkest night...
Rseearch performed at City and social legislation enacted in Washington, however, were by the end of World War II spelling the end of the need for a hospital of City's scope and purpose. The huge, 500-plus-bed South Department gradually became obsolete. Created as a hospital-within-a-hospital, South Department was designed for victims of "contagious diseases." It is physically isolated from the rest of City. Brick walls and iron fences set it off from the neighborhood; entrance to South Department can be gained only through a few central gates...
...obvious suggestion is to close down City completely and replace it with a smaller general hospital for the South End. But a hospital of this scope would not be adequate enough for the clinical training needs of the medical schools that currently service City--Harvard, Boston University, and Tufts...
...account of the state of the drama can ignore the society around it, since the theater is the most social of all art forms. Drama of sweep and scope makes large statements about the nature of life and refracts the temper of the times. All the great ages of theater have possessed a vaulting image of man, and an absorptive, undeviating concern with his destiny. "In apprehension, how like a god" is not casual Elizabethan rhetoric, but the supremely assured recognition that man is the noblest, grandest creature that walks the earth. And what does contemporary U.S. society...