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Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...
...Since I shave every blessed day," Agustin Lara once remarked, "I have long ago learned from my mirror that my face has no business before a camera. But since people have a morbid curiosity about things that do not concern them, a film on my life-no matter how wretchedly done-would be sure to fill the movie houses...
...Garand rifles need no longer be fired to line up the sights for factory tests. A new method of testing the sights, developed in the General Electric laboratories, uses a plug holding a mirror inserted in the barrel to line up images of front and rear sights on a screen. Time, ammunition and manpower are thus saved...
Upper-Air Mirror. Physicist Heck's nested cones have vast potentialities for supplementing planes and meteorological balloons for getting upper-air readings for accurate weather forecasting...
...Relaxed Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...