Word: x-rays
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...midst of the worst ringworm epidemic ever recorded north of the Rio Grande. Itching heads were thrust under ultraviolet lamps to make the disease show up, shaved, scrubbed, treated with salves, and encased in sterile white cotton caps to prevent spreading. Doctors tried new drugs by the score. Special X-ray clinics were set up, and skilled radiologists were brought in to treat the itchy youngsters...
...varnish were removed, drab yellows and blacks turned into delicate white, grey and rose. Hidden architectural details appeared in the background. A hand, repainted twice in the past three centuries, resumed its original form. An anatomical diagram was discovered on the sheet of paper that one man was holding. X-ray photographs revealed more. A face at the top of the group had apparently been painted in after the picture was completed. The refined-looking Dr. Tulp had originally been a coarse-featured Dutchman. Restorers could not uncover the original face, however, for fear of destroying the painting...
Keck gave the portrait a good going-over with a magnifying glass, then with X-ray photographs. Sure enough, under the pretty features lay another shadowy face. For three months, Keck worked painstakingly with a solvent mixture, cotton swabs and a delicate scalpel, removed the varnish and the top layer of paint. As he worked, a totally different young lady appeared. Writes Keck in the current museum Bulletin: "The mouth was wider and less luscious; the nose was longer and definitely hooked . . . the eyes were smaller and not so soft and liquid. The entire shape of the face was subtly...
...tricky moments: "Television is murder on the phony. Those brutal cameras, those revealing closeups, are tougher than the Kefauver committee. TV exposes hypocrisy, insincerity, anything that's faked and dishonest. That television screen in the living room tells you more about a man's insides than the X-ray machine in a doctor's office. When you've been tested in television's tube, mister...
...meet all his specifications, but they do illustrate a trend. The first story is simply for laughs, almost a parody of previous space operas: Otho, first ambassador from Philistia, reaches Washington in a rocket ship easily enough, then gets into trouble with the girls because of his X-ray eyes. In Blind Alley, rich and nostalgic Mr. Feathersmith hires the devil to restore the home town of his boyhood, but soon realizes that life in good old Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps...