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Fresh Orange Juice. Refrigerated fresh Florida orange juice went on sale in waxed-paper cartons as a new competitor of frozen orange juice. A new process developed by Golden Gift, Inc., De Land, Fla., bombards the fresh juice with ultraviolet rays to halt bacteria and enzyme growth without adding preservatives, keeps orange juice fresh, with vitamin C content unchanged, up to two weeks in household refrigerators. Price: 35? a quart...
Died. Theodore Lyman, 79, retired Harvard physicist and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society; in Cambridge, Mass. A pioneer in the investigation of ultraviolet radiation, tall, aloof Bachelor Lyman discovered the "Lyman series" of wave lengths, which contributed fundamentally to the development of atomic theory...
...avert surprise invasions by crop pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed fluorescent "lamp traps." Luring the "advance-guard" moths of crop-destroying grubs (e.g., tobacco budworms, cotton bollworms) with near-ultraviolet "black light," the traps soon collect a representative catch, give farmers as much as three weeks' time to prepare counter-measures against each type of invader...
...passing secret check points too early or too late; they would be penalized for drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...
...their saints after burial and boiled the bones before transferring them to reliquaries, he exposed dubious bones to ultraviolet light. Under this light ordinary bones have a mauve hue, cooked bones show up white...