Word: ultraviolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gymnasium. Other Beckett bathrooms have magazine racks, telephones, sun lamps over the sink and reading lamps over the toilet. For Jules Stein, chairman of the huge M.C.A. talent agency, Beckett provided his master touch: a special rack for toothbrushes, one for each day of the week, each cleaned by ultraviolet light...
...kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury of a bath-in liquid Lux detergent. Scratching is forbidden: it might...
...Gains. The best of Tanny's gyms are modern, clean, superbly equipped, often house under one roof the gym, a swimming pool, steam rooms, an ultraviolet tanning room, even a private bowling alley. Moreover, Tanny's tactics have paid off. Since he gave up teaching junior high school and opened his first gym in 1935. sales have developed to $24 million a year. Tanny owns all his 80 clubs outright, together with six companies that service them with everything from exercise machines to health foods. He opened 35 new gyms last year at a cost...
...telescopes carried by satellites far above all trace of air. Even if rather small, the telescopes will see much more clearly than the 200-incher. Perhaps they will settle the question of the "canals" on Mars. They will certainly observe in the heavens kinds of radiation (X-ray and ultraviolet) that cannot penetrate the atmosphere. This type of observation is important because many stars are known to radiate chiefly in these unobservable rays...
Some plastics, Snyder admitted, will surely be weakened by the ultraviolet light that abounds in space. But others may actually be strengthened. He explained that ultraviolet does its damage by breaking the plastic's molecular chains and permitting oxygen and other gases to attach themselves to the broken ends, thus making the break permanent. In space this will not happen. The loose ends of chains broken by ultraviolet will usually find no gases to combine with. They are free to recombine with other loose ends, giving the plastic a strong, cross-braced structure...