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What atomic workers need is an artificial sixth sense-a cheap, reliable radiation sniffer capable of giving a timely warning of danger. Last week the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had developed just such a gadget. Unlike earlier devices, which are cumbersome, slow to report or have to be read with close attention, the O.R.N.L. "Personal Radiation Monitor" is no larger than a fountain pen and reacts unmistakably as soon as it scents trouble. Clipped to a lab worker's clothing, the monitor gives off high-pitched chirps and flashes an orange neon light whenever it detects...
...million) from tithes on almond, saffron and olive harvests, profits from stocks in French-run mines, rebates on imported cars and machinery, reputed revenue from 6,000 prostitutes. His power rested on 30,000 tribesmen whom he used to enforce French colonial policies. In 1953 El Glaoui, an astute sniffer of political winds, aided the French in selling out the legitimate Sultan ben Youssef. Last fall he reversed himself when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef, helped recall him to the throne, crawled on his hands and knees to beg forgiveness: "I am a slave at His Majesty...
Although efforts to eliminate the noxious odors during the Jubilee were unsuccessful, University slouths, including an official "sniffer," had located and eliminated most of the chemical-laden objects by Monday...
...Sinkwich, late of Georgia. He is a superb faker and a hard tackier. But he has one weakness-pass defense-which keeps him on the bench when the enemy has the ball. The way Chapp explains it": "You have to smell where to go on pass defense-and my sniffer's not too good...
...Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages to stay awake all day on Shamm en-Nesim...