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...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
...outside specialists. The committees make their decisions in keeping with the expected public examination questions. Therefore, teachers do not usually expand or experiment with course material. If they do, students are likely to ignore the additional or novel material, since they are aware that they will not be tester in it. Except in the physical sciences, where 30% of the grade is determined by class work, the student's grade on the public exam in his grade for the course...
Once an employee wins with a suggestion, he almost always tries again. At General Motors, where $7,000,000 was distributed to more than 200,000 employees for suggestions last year, a die tester named George Herzig is the grand champion. In 17 years, he has dropped 134 suggestions in the box, had 35 accepted. With the $41,905 he received, he has bought and furnished a house...
...ultrasonics -super high-frequency sound waves - to probe right through big forgings in the rotors of its giant $2 million turbine generators and detect air pockets or cracks inside the metal; since it began this test, Westinghouse has not had a single forging break on the job. An ultrasonic tester used by Republic Steel can measure the thickness of a coat of paint or locate an air pocket 40 ft. deep in solid steel...
...making it easier to detect and correct flaws. Manufacturers of machinery and airframes spend 13% of their production costs on nondestructive testing, are convinced that otherwise they would lose 45% of their production because of faulty quality. "Every time you have to do something over again," says Lockheed Aircraft Tester Harvey Christen, "you duplicate your original cost. Nondestructive testing helps you to make each part right the first time...