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...must send high praise for your exceptional cover story, "The Anatomy of Angst." It sends a strong beam of clarity and vision through the gloomy confusion of our contemporary psychological landscape...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded...
...detection system for the Sidewinder missile, which seeks out the enemy aircraft by homing in on the heat from its engines. The company also provided the detection equipment for the surveillance satellite Midas. On the commercial market Infrared Industries offers a toy walkie-talkie that uses an infra-red beam to transmit up to i.ooo ft. in the daytime...
...volt electrons of ordinary microscopes are not powerful enough to penetrate the two layers of film and the plump, water-filled bodies of healthy bacteria. So the upper part of Dupouy's sphere is filled with a powerful accelerator that delivers a beam of million-volt electrons. They are tricky and dangerous to handle, but carefully measured bursts of them pass through living bacteria and make meaningful shadow pictures of their insides, magnified 25,000 times. The bacteria are little the worse for their experience. Dupouy testified almost affectionately that when they are taken out of the formidable microscope...
Last week, with three months' worth of successful beam-bending to back them up, Gallet and Professor Booker were considering the practical applications of their theory. In time, they believe, the bent beam may provide: 1) a new tool for studying the effect of solar eruptions on the earth's magnetic field; 2) a new method for long-range surveillance of missile activity behind the Iron Curtain; 3) jam-proof long-distance communications...