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Hold That Shot. In the simplest procedures, a pulse generator sends bursts of current to a crystal, which then produces sonic energy at frequencies ranging from one million to as high as 10 million cycles per second. The pulses pass through a transducer, a combined transmitter-receiver the size of a microphone, which may be simply moistened with water and held against a patient's skull. For a pregnant woman, the transducer is held against the abdomen, which is smeared with light...
...ostensible cause of all this was eight sonic booms every 24 hours, day after day, week after week-a pattern of thunderclaps for the area's 750,000 inhabitants who have become guinea pigs in a six-month Federal Aviation Agency test. The test is to determine the effect upon groundlings of flights by supersonic transport aircraft, which the U.S. is about ready to develop, when they start crisscrossing the country in the early 1970s...
Since the test began one morning last month, when an F-104 jet from nearby Tinker Air Force Base sonic-boomed over the city, the FAA has been: haled into federal court on two injunction suits, one filed by Plumber Woodrow Bussey, who finally fled to Arizona "for the duration"; named in 75 damage claims totaling $10,067; the recipient of a death threat against national FAA Administrator Najeeb Halaby; deluged with more than 4,300 phone calls. Added to these was a peculiar complaint from the owner of a general store in nearby Seward, Okla. Lately, it seems...
...fact, official surveillance organizations, such as the FBI, have expertly bugged rooms spotted through leading hotels. When they want to tune in on a guest, they ask the hotel management to steer him to one of these sonic studios. If the guest balks, an agent needs only a few minutes to sneak up and secrete several bugs in the room assigned the visitor; then a team of technicians moves into an adjoining room to set up listening and recording apparatus...
...FISH, which are increasingly difficult to find among the wakes of powerboats, are now indicated by Aqua-Ear, an underwater sonic system that tells the fisherman where to cut off the engine. And the underwater swimmer, after years of face masks that cut vision from 180° to 75° and made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair...