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...licked. To keep the ink from joining the clay, they dissolved it in oil and churned it into microscopic droplets in a solution of gelatin and other gummy colloids. Then they caused the gelatin to precipitate on the oil droplets, enclosing them in capsules only one ten-thousandth inch in diameter. This trick solved the problem. The capsules and clay can be on the same side of the paper, but the paper remains white until pressure of a pencil or impact of a typewriter breaks the capsules; then the ink mixes with clay and turns blue...
Present plans for earth satellites call only for a 20-inch sphere bearing a small load of instruments. The panel, however, will consider the possibility of a manned observatory, which would have the advantage of viewing planets and stars unobstructed by the earth's atmosphere...
...Gutowski with a spring to spare. In a dual meet with Stanford, the Occidental College senior had the bar set at 15 ft. 9 in., cleared it by almost 4 in. Later measurement showed that the bar had sagged to 15 ft. 8¼in., still one-half inch above Cornelius Warmerdam's 15-year-old world outdoor record. Warmer-dam, for one, had seen the new heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed...
...electronics designers have produced a microphone so small that it can be put in the end of a catheter (flexible tube) and worked through a blood vessel right into the heart. Developed by New Jersey's Gulton Industries, Inc., the microphone is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, three-quarters of an inch long. Dr. Howard L. Moscovitz of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital has used it to diagnose heart defects-by placing it next to heart valves and in the great vessels, and listening to the distinctive sounds. t| To help get crippled arthritics mobile again...
...letters I get from home," wrote People's New York Correspondent Len Coulter, "reveal that thousands of people in Britain have swallowed the old bunk about the American Way of Life-swish homes, big cars, gleaming refrigerators, 21-inch TV sets and plenty of money in the bank. Phooey...