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...glass surfaces, Moulton's invention is a simple coating that makes glass and other materials nonreflecting-and virtually invisible. Restricted to military uses for the duration, it will provide the postwar world with such useful things as: spectacle lenses that will cut out bright-light reflections for their wearer and be almost invisible to others; glareless car windshields; more visible dashboards and instrument panels; store windows, showcases, picture frames, watch crystals and clockfaces so clear that the glass is invisible;-faster camera lenses, producing sharper pictures; clearer movies and television...
...inlays are light, comfortable, and move enough to be convincing when face muscles move. Their only disadvantage is that they wear out fast. A long life for a nose is 15 days. But if the wearer has Dawn's equipment, he can make a new nose in short order...
...Canadian sailors are now equipped with a new life jacket which covers the lower part of the trunk and gives its wearer better protection against burns and concussion injuries from exploding shells and depth charges in the water. Stowed in the jacket are several new gadgets to aid rescue: a yellow cap (to make its wearer more conspicuous), an electric lamp, a length of rope, a pair of stout loops for rescuers to grab. Another new item of Canadian lifeboat equipment is a supply of heavy socks impregnated with vaseline, to protect sailors from "immersion foot," a circulatory disorder that...
...days, with four years of study and gaiety ahead of them; now few expect to pass their Freshman year. And if the method of entrance into Father's bond business was ever the most serious problem of the future, it's been replaced. Right now, the problem every Crimson wearer is thinking of and bulling about is where he'll be in a few months, what branch of the service he'll be in, and "when...
...farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...