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...merger in the Common Market's six-year history. The merger unites two firms whose trademark on roll film is familiar to the millions of camera-carrying tourists who have visited Europe. The two: Belgium's Gevaert Photo-Producten, also the world's biggest producer of X-ray film, and Germany's Agfa, Europe's biggest camera maker, which will join in a company that will control 12% of the world's photo business, more than any other firm except Kodak...
...storage for a quarter-century until a year ago, when a restorer at London's Thomas Agnew & Sons began to remove the scummy varnish. Was it Raphael's famous Madonna di Loreto of around 1510, known through more than 30 existing copies and through art-history references? X-ray and infra-red photography at London's Courtauld Institute probed its veil of oils, and now the best experts that Agnew can find say cautiously that the work seems to be an authentic Raphael. "The lightning strikes," said Getty. But, he adds, "I wouldn't dream...
...truck bodies; General Motors' Opel subsidiary 18 months ago opened a $500 million factory for its new Kadett small cars at Bochum-symbolically built over an abandoned coal mine. At Essen and Dortmund, Krupp, Siemens and AEG have put up new plants to manufacture everything from turbogenerators to X-ray apparatus. Also sprouting are plants for electronics parts, TV sets, plate glass and clothing, as well as factories that turn out a cheap furniture; in honor of its city of origin, Germans have dubbed the furniture "Gelsenkirchner Baroque." Though the Ruhr gained fame for its contributions to the arsenals...
...Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physicist Raymond Davis Jr. is designing one of the most extraordinary instruments known to modern science. When completed, it will be a swimming pool full of cleaning fluid, and will be installed in a deep mine to X-ray...
Part of the building will be equipped for treatment of patients with brain tumors, diabetic eye damage, Parkinson's disease, and breast cancer. Beams of atomic particles from the adjacent 160 million volt electron cyclotron will improve upon the traditional X-ray for treatment of localized tumors...