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...building pace is now the best since the war, Europe's population is growing at an even faster pace, and the countries already best off for homes (Scandinavia and Britain) are progressing better than those that need it most (eastern Europe, France, Italy and Turkey). The conclusion: "The gap between the better-off and the worse-off is widening...
...physicists have filled the gaps in the electromagnetic spectrum, which runs from X rays at the short end, through light and heat, to miles-long radio waves at the other. One big gap remained between the infra-red (heat) waves and the shortest radio waves (about .8 mm.) that man's apparatus could generate. Last week Dr. Hans Motz of Stanford University told how the gap has been filled...
...hitched his undulator to a large linear accelerator that sent out electrons at 100 million electron volts. From the business end came a beam of blue light. He had actually generated "radio waves" that were short enough to qualify as visible light. This stunt proved that the stubborn gap in the spectrum has been closed, but it is hardly practical. There are better ways of generating the waves of light and heat...
Abandoned stone quarries, if they are used at all, are generally used only as swimming holes. But in the last year Esso Standard Oil has spent about $500,000 making an oil storage tank out of a vacant quarry at Wind Gap, Pa. Last week Esso pumped the first oil from its Linden, N.J. Bayway Refinery 65 miles through a 6-in. pipeline into the huge pit, capable of holding about 1,000,000 bbls. of heating...
...Alaska. Except for Navy picket ships and patrolling "Pregnant Geese" (radar-laden Lockheed Super Constellations), the protective net stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...