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...such explosions are far from invisible to eyes designed to see them. Most of their energy goes into X rays that travel unhindered through space and are stopped by the earth's atmosphere. A sensitive X-ray detector above the atmosphere can spot them 200 million miles away, and the satellite sentries launched last week carry twelve cylindrical X-ray detectors poking out in all directions. Inside the satellites' skins are instruments that will watch for the neutrons and gamma rays that also come from explosions in vacuum...
...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
Despite the growing interest of business in nondestructive testing, Robert C. McMaster, a professor of welding engineering at Ohio State who has developed an X-ray method for testing metals that shows up flaws on a TV screen, complains that the new technology still "means little or nothing to perhaps 99% of U.S. industry." Considering the quality loss caused by less exacting standards, McMaster views industry's reluctance to take up nondestructive testing as "a major tragedy...
Fellow students at the university found him an unfriendly loner, spouting politics and economics, yet scorning the usual student bull sessions as mere "time-wasting." Sloppy and unkempt, he drifted from rooming house to rooming house, along the way married an X-ray technician whose income supported them. Then came the Cuban revolution, and Schoeters found a hero to emulate. He listened avidly on short-wave radio for news from the hills, talked incessantly about traveling to Cuba...
Twisting All Night. With a flurry of restless, driving energy, Bader has expanded his three family companies into 130 agencies representing the world's major manufacturers, now deals in 40,000 items from abattoirs to X-ray equipment. He has boosted sales from $3,000,000 to $30 million yearly, quadrupled net profits against stiffening competition from other ambitious Arab businessmen. He tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training...