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Last week Raytheon won a $6,000,000 contract for the electronic controls of the Navy's new surface-to-air Tartar missile, announced a $6,000,000 contract for development of a radically new sonar system for atomic submarines. To manufacture top-secret communications equipment for the Air Force, the firm is shopping around for a huge new factory that will add one-sixth more capacity to its plants, which are scattered from Massachusetts to California...
Across the country, fees are remarkably uniform. Most vets charge $3 to $5 for an office visit, add $2 or so for ordinary medicines, $3 to $6 for injections (more and better vaccines are coming out), $5 for tooth-cleaning ($7.50 with tartar scraping), $50 for cosmetic surgery to make a dog's ears stand up. Spaying runs from $20 (for a cat) to $35 for a bitch, more if the patient is over a year old. Most vets can be induced to make house calls (though they discourage them for the same reasons as M.D.s), charge...
...health hazards of nuclear radiation. ¶Ultrasound vibrations (TIME, Dec. 2), already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...
Moving in as weaponry for the new Navy is a growing family of guided missiles: Terrier, Talos and Tartar, Regulus, Petrel, Sparrow and Sidewinder. With a big stock of conventional big-gun ammunition on hand, the Navy is making no more (except for target rounds). The missile cruisers Boston and Canberra are in service with their radar-controlled antiaircraft Terriers. The ancient battleship Mississippi, converted three years ago to a missile carrier, is a busy floating laboratory for missile development. Two conventional submarines. Tunny and Barbero, have been converted to missiles, and two more conversions are authorized. The Navy...
...This Tartar woman is fer me," drawls Big John through his Fu Manchu mustache as Susan ("much woman") Hayward goes dawdling sensuously through the desert on a litter borne by sweating slaves. He kills her guards and carries her off. "Know this, woman," gruffs Wayne, looking about as uncomfortable as a right tackle caught reading Swinburne, "I take you fer wife." But as he pulls Hayward hayward, Hayward pulls away. "For me," she snarls, "there is no ease while you live, Mongol." Says John: "Yer beooduful in yer wrath." He takes her on a trip to the court...