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...conference of the International Council of Scientific Unions in London, Sterling P. Newberry of the General Electric Co. last week told about the invention of an instrument that scientists have coveted for years. It is a new X-ray microscope, developed by Newberry and Selby E. Summers at the G.E. laboratory in Schenectady...
Scientists have never been able to get a magnified X-ray look at internal structures through ordinary optical microscopes, since X rays cannot be focused by optical lenses like ordinary light. The best X rays can do is to cast shadows of the objects that they have passed through...
Usually, the shadows are ill-defined because the source of the X rays is comparatively large (e.g. as in an X-ray chest plate). As the source grows smaller, the sharpness of the shadows increases...
...chemical weapon against cancer has always been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April...
...Star, in an editorial, singled out three methods by which the press has helped the rise: "The first [treatment] is the He-Didn't-Mention-McCarthy-but-We -Know -He -Meant - to-So-We'11-Do-It-for-Him." This method is used "when Senator X or Secretary Y ascends the public platform and makes some passing reference to 'divisive influences' or 'disruptive forces.' The news stories on this generally begin: 'In an obvious reference to Senator McCarthy . . .' The headline . . . usually reads SECRETARY Y BLASTS