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Preventive Medicine. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, when a police recruit was asked, during a first aid test, "How would you arrest a hemorrhage?" he answered: "I would put my hand on his shoulder and warn and caution...
...airplane through a region where it may be -and wait for the bumps to begin. The Weather Bureau intends to do this if it can get the money to fly its elaborately instrumented hurricane-hunter planes during hurricane-free seasons. Such a course of flying may suggest ways to warn pilots of CAT ahead...
...process. Through the murder, Tarwater thinks that he has exorcised his great-uncle's injunction to preach and baptize. But back home the boy discovers that a Negro neighbor has rescued his uncle's body and given it Christian burial. He recalls the inner voice that had warned him against the compulsion to serve God: "You have to take hold and put temptation behind you. If you baptize once, you'll be doing it the rest of your life. If it's an idiot this time, the next time it's liable...
...flight itself. Hunched over green-glowing radarscopes in 35 stations across the nation stand ARTC (Air Route Traffic Control) men, who follow and guide airplanes flying through heavy weather or at sky-streaking altitudes on Instrument Flight Rules. Moving their transparent markers ("shrimp boats") alongside little blips, they warn of nearby traffic, give directions, order changes in headings and altitudes. If a plane is a 550-m.p.h. jet, the controller gives the pilot 100 miles' clear space ahead, 100 behind; prop-driven planes get 35 miles. Through controllers and towers, miles of Teletype wire and a host of electronic...
When a "big one" is scheduled for a night test, a honking sound beats for a few minutes over the still desert to warn the unwary. Then privileged watchers inside the fence feel the ground tremble under their feet, see a long, white, incredibly brilliant flame jut horizontally out of the hillside. The show lasts for about one minute and shuts off abruptly. There is no fuss, no dramatic countdown, seldom any delay...