Word: darknesse
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Electronic devices for seeing in very dim light have become commonplace, but all of them are blind in total darkness. Last week Baird Associates. Inc. of Cambridge, Mass, showed a recently declassified "camera" that needs no light at all, only infra-red (heat) radiation from faintly warm objects.
When Eva looks at an airplane in total darkness, the hot engine parts may show up yellow while the cold wings look blue. A heated house is visible against its cooler background, and factory chimneys stand out conspicuously with trails of hot gas. The heat-pictures on the film are...
Only once does the honesty falter--in the portrayal of evil. The author has drawn the forces of darkness as inherently self-destructive, by nature incapable of exercising their full potential or adequately coping with altruism. While the history of recent totalitarianism affords a limited example of this situation, the...
From Washington the television scene shifted to Chicago, where 10,000 candles, symbolic of friendship toward Ike, glowed in the darkness, and Fred Waring's choristers sang, "Thanks, Mr. President, we honor you tonight . . ." Ike, chin in hand, peered intently; Mamie hunched forward in her seat for a better...
The submarine will be specially built with a watertight chamber to hold the great missile. It will poke to the surface an instrument to tell it exactly where it is. Then, at its leisure in darkness and silence, far below wave action, it will open its missile chamber. The missile...