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Near the output end, each sample drops into a tube on the rim of a colorimeter that looks like a twelve-spoke wheel. A powerful light flashes a beam through the tubes, and photo-electric cells measure the intensity of the transmitted light. A computer converts these readings into values for the pen to draw on the chart paper (see diagram...
...safety, styling has not been forgotten. Among brand-new cars, Chevrolet offers the Camaro, a copy of Ford's successful Mustang. Lincoln-Mercury's Cougar has a front like a Thunderbird and a rear like the Mustang. Next week Cadillac will display the Eldorado, a front-wheel-drive sports car with Caddy configuration and the innards of Oldsmobile's Toronado...
Divine Instrument. His nation was stunned. In the cities, whites and blacks fought for copies of the newspaper extras that brought the first word of the assassination. In Johannesburg, a bus driver saw the headlines, stopped his bus, and fainted at the wheel. A quarter of a million South Africans, black as well as white, stood silently on the streets of Pretoria while his funeral procession filed past. Hundreds of thousands of whites flocked to their churches for solace. "May the God in whom we believe make clear to us in his own time what this horrible event...
Some hospital patients get sicker simply from lying in bed. Whatever else may be wrong with them, patients who suffer long sieges in bed or wheel chair are prone to develop bedsores, ugly and dangerous wounds that often harbor fatal infections...
...children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When the gel is used in wheel-chair seats, says Spence, the decreased threat of pain and tissue breakdown even serves as a form of psychotherapy...