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Board Member: If you had knowledge of your brother's belonging to any of these organizations that are listed in the Attorney General's list, would you come forward and give that information or would you try to shield...
Employee: I don't understand what you mean, try to shield him. Try to shield him from what...
Astronomer Hiltner found a physicist's solution to the problem. At the university's Yerkes Observatory, he installed an aluminum shield, only four-millionths of an inch thick, between the photocathode and the photographic plate. The fast electrons passed right through the shield like light through a window; the foil prevented the water molecules from destroying the vulnerable cesium, hence the light booster could operate indefinitely...
...Blue Cross (hospital) plans provide no funds for diagnosis until the subscriber has been admitted to a hospital, which means that a doctor must have certified him as already ill; Blue Shield (doctors' bills) plans vary widely, but many make partial or no payment for X rays, blood chemistry tests, pregnancy tests. Attempts to get around these provisions have resulted in abuse of the plans and forced their rates...
...time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...