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This time it was an estimated $15,000,000 worth of art from the onetime Austrian royal family's collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn...
...clouds of time. In the beginning, say the Japanese history books, Heaven & Earth were one, a primal protoplasm drifting in the void like a jellyfish on water. Then the Universe took form. On the Plain of High Heaven the first gods appeared. The Sky Father, Izanagi, stood upon the Rainbow Bridge to Earth and dipped his jeweled spear into the sea. The drops that fell, as he withdrew the blade, congealed into the Japanese archipelago...
...rainbow, as every schoolboy knows, is formed by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. Optical engineers have known for some time that an artificial rainbow can be produced by passing light through certain crystals. An ingenious wartime application of this phenomenon is a rainbow gunsight...
...device, known as the "ring sight," looks something like a reading glass. When a gunner peers through it, he sees a set of rainbow-colored, concentric circles. Unlike rings painted on glass, these optical rings are projected beyond the disk and seem to lie directly on the object sighted (see cut). Easier to use and more accurate than most optical sights, the ring sight is especially helpful against moving targets, because the regularly spaced outer rings give a gunner a means of measuring how much he must lead the target...
...rainbow sight is made by sandwiching a natural crystal or a synthetic sodium nitrate crystal between two layers of polarizing glass. Optical engineers of the Polaroid Corp., manufacturers of the sight, envision many uses for it. Camera fans have already found that it makes an excellent view finder...