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...looking for new ones. In New Jersey, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories have recorded the dying whisper of what might be radio waves emitted by a cosmological bang 10 billion years ago. In Washington last week, Navy scientists reported that a high-flying Aerobee rocket had detected strong X-ray sources associated with distant galaxies. And NASA officials are preparing for the launching later this month of an orbiting observatory equipped with telescopes for the continuous detection of ultraviolet, gamma and X-ray radiation that cannot be seen through the earth's atmosphere...
...hospital corpsmen lived in the Metropole. Sixteen were injured in the blast; 14, though injured, spent the next twelve hours aiding the injured as well as carrying out their assigned hospital tasks. On the "blast" side of the Metropole, doctors' offices, treatment rooms, an eye clinic, the X-ray department and bacteriology laboratory were demolished. In the main hospital building, two patients were injured. But assistance by a surgical team from the Army 3rd Field Hospital enabled us to gain "medical control" of the situation by late afternoon the same day. We are small, but wound tight...
...when I commanded the 29th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad near Portsmouth, England, I was called to a U.S. Army hospital and asked to identify an object silhouetted on X-ray plates. It was a 20-mm. shell, embedded in the chest of an American merchant seaman who had been on the deck of his ship at Omaha Beach, June 6. A surgeon cut the man open, grasped the shell with forceps and put it into my hands. There were no sandbags, though I did observe a bead or two of sweat...
Ever since Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen discovered his wonderful X rays in 1895, physicists and physicians have been burning themselves, and sometimes patients as well, with accidental overdoses. And like the damage from exposure to more recently discovered sources of nuclear energy, X-ray burns have proved virtually incurable. Despite skin grafts, they often lead to progressive gangrene and successive amputations one famed "Xray martyr," Chicago's late Dr. Emil Grubbé, had no fewer than 93 operations before he died...
...word spread, and the Indians now welcome the boats whenever they appear. The craft currently in service are equipped to provide only rudimentary medical services. By the end of this year, Belaunde plans to add two more gunboats armed with the most modern medical equipment, including surgery and X-ray facilities. "Then," says one doctor, "we will really be doing things for the people." And really doing things for Belaunde's government, which is facing sharp new pressures in Peru's Congress over the Castroite threat in the backlands and is convinced that one of the best weapons...