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...A.C.S. van Heel in The Netherlands have copied this system by binding transparent fibers (glass or plastic) into compact bundles. When a lens forms an image on one end of the bundle, each fiber transmits a small part of it to the other end, where it shows as a pattern of bright dots, one from each fiber. The bundle can be bent into sharp curves, but the image follows it faithfully without losing its sharpness. If poked into a human stomach, it could give an insect-eye view of anything there...
...cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits. To build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...
During World War II, many new devices (e.g., radar) were adopted and developed to great refinement by the Navy. After the war, the Navy tended to settle in the just-established pattern. Rulers of the roost in the doctrine of the Navy were the carrier-borne airmen, who had fought spectacularly in the war in the Pacific. Far down in the list of the Navy's seagoing establishment were the submarines. They had played a vital part in the Pacific war, but they seemed to have little purpose against a potential enemy without much ocean commerce...
...pattern did not include the most revolutionary novelty; nuclear propulsion. It was still untried; indeed, it seemed far in the future, and the peacetime promotion system did not favor the quick rise of brilliant men with vision enough to prepare for the battles of the distant future...
...pick of all La Junta scouts; they spend hundreds of dollars on their costumes and go on tour each summer in their own especially equipped bus, netting as much as $50,000 a season. Their headquarters is a $150,000 kiva, or ceremonial house, roofed by a lace-log pattern of 620 poles...