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...biggest U.S. firms for contracts, and been able to deliver. On the fire-control system, for example, the Air Force gave Hughes a year to develop the project from scratch; nine months later, an Air Force pilot flying a jet fitted with the prototype unit shot down an unseen target plane automatically...
...those who collaborated with the French and Vietnamese Nationalists must report at once to the nearest police station," droned unseen men in loudspeaker cars that patrolled the shuttered streets. There would be new taxes, new penalties for opposing the state; there would be meetings in which the people would be urged to denounce their own misdeeds and those of their neighbors. As the curtain of Ho's bloody conformity enveloped Haiphong and the Bay of Along, with their coal mines, docks, cement works and grotesquely jagged offshore islands, Ho Chi Minh made arrangements for a victory parade...
...cheer our troops," the unseen men in the loudspeaker cars told the people, "but you may not cross the streets...
...traveled in lonely splendor to the crossroads of the visible and the invisible, expressing each in terms of the other. He came close to proving by mathematicians' logic what men of religion had long accepted on philosophers' reasoning or faith: that the laws which move the tiniest unseen electrons must also govern the macrocosms of intergalactic space. Einstein's scratchpad theorems broke through the thought barriers of knowledge and rewrote the basic scientific law of the universe. The now-mundane miracle of television is a splinter off Einstein's achievement; the mushroom clouds of atomic fission...
...Unseen Magic. Dr. Fleming scraped off some of the mold with a loop of platinum wire and grew the stuff by itself. In the fluid in which it multiplied was a something that killed several kinds of microbes. The mold was a variety of penicillium, and Fleming called the unseen but magical substance penicillin. He wrote about it in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. One man paid close heed: Chemist Harold Raistrick extracted a crude form of penicillin, but was advised by senior doctors that it had no future as a medicine for humans-it was too unstable. Fleming...