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...tiny radiation source is cranked 6 ft. into the shaft. A strip of industrial X-ray film wound around the engine is bombarded by the gamma rays streaming out from the isotope. The result is a detailed X-ray photograph of the hundreds of tough-to-get-at rotor blades that suck air into the engine, compress it and feed it to the combustion chambers...
...intrigue. Back in 1856, a Paris dealer sold a 193-page manuscript. Dated around 1435, it was recognized by its heraldic symbols as a Book of Hours for Catherine of Cleves, noble daughter of a powerful Dutch duke. For more than a century, no one questioned its completeness. It wound up in 1958 in the Guennol collection, owned by Long Island Investor Alastair B. Martin...
...heart. Medical annals are full of cases in which wandering bullets have traveled from the chest, say, to such unlikely places as the knee. But the young Maine hunter had set what astounded doctors thought might be something of a record. Having been shot in the head, he wound up wounded in the heart...
...Problems. Almost certainly the man behind increasing leftist intrigue is "Mr. Double O"-Oginga Odinga, formerly Kenyatta's Home Minister, who wound up as Vice President in Kenyatta's new Cabinet, a post that theoretically limits his powers but in the eyes of most Kenyans makes him heir to Kenyatta. Odinga is a well-entrenched leader of Kenyatta's KANU Party, which is now the only one in Parliament after the country "voluntarily" turned itself into a one-party state; he regularly visits Peking, and he receives Russian and Red Chinese financial support. Perhaps only tough, able...
Last week Radio Havana flashed the news that Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez was critically ill with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The communique reported that Martinez had been fired the previous day for "serious administrative errors," added piously that his suicide attempt was "unjustifiable and improper," since a revolutionary must not "deprive his cause of a life that does not belong...