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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitive to infrared radiation from hot objects like the tailpipes of jet engines. When the sensing device "sees" something hot in its 20° field of vision, it turns toward it. The Sidewinder turns too, homing accurately on the hot object. The system is so simple that pilots can use it in combat with scarcely any special training...
...Beagle, often tagged the poor man's hunting dog. Slower than larger hounds, the beagle will not range too far afield of the hunter or frighten game too far ahead of the gun. Oldest upland game dog in the U.S. is the silky-coated English Setter. Northern hunters use this breed for grouse and woodcock while Southerners hunting quail prefer the shorter-haired Pointer...
Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
...jolt to anyone, regardless of financial circumstances," says a neat card prepared by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and handed out last week by doctors to patients or their kin. And with good reason: Cutter was talking about bills for one of the highest-priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient: $50 to $55 a gram (1/30 oz.). Average amount used...
...strange fruit have raised a vigorous progeny. His free form can today be found in Palm Springs swimming pools, advertising layouts, book design. His use of chance effects and nonrational promptings paved the way for abstract artists' use of below-the-threshold impulses. But of one thing he is certain: "If the human being loses contact with nature, if there are no longer any trees, it is the end of the world. Machines, Sputniks, I find them horrible, ridiculous. The human being has become presumptuous...