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...Fort Randall Dam near Pickstown, S. Dak. is the first of four big Missouri River projects to produce power in the Pick-Sloan development plan for the power-hungry Missouri Valley (TIME, Sept. 1, 1952). Almost two miles long and 160 ft. high, the dam was started in 1946, will have cost nearly $200 million by the time its last unit goes into operation in 1956. In addition to its ultimate power capacity of 320,000 kw., enough to light a city of 500,000, Fort Randall may well serve an immediate purpose of another nature. By impounding high waters...
...committee, headed by Amherst's president Charles W. Cole, and including President Pusey and President John Sloan Dickey of Dartmouth has been corresponding with the College Boards...
...making a blood count, technicians have to look through microscopes to determine the number of red cells in diluted blood samples. This takes time, and sometimes technicians make mistakes. Now researchers at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, working with electronics experts, have found a more foolproof blood-counter: a TV microscope. A small TV camera, mounted on a microscope, scans the blood on a slide. As the beam covers the slide, it counts the patches of light and dark made by the blood cells, and an electronic computer compensates for cells of varying sizes...
Radio Chitchatter Sloan Simpson, estranged wife of Expatriate William O'Dwyer, onetime mayor of New York City and later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, was back on her old Manhattan stamping grounds, showed up for a midnight movie première looking as if she were the town's First Lady all over again...
...Among the backers: the Ford, Carnegie and Sloan Foundations...