Blackout “Eye”

Searching for persons or objects in total darkness poses no problems for soldiers wearing sniperscopes. Clamped to a helmet, the equipment combines an infrared light source and an electronic telescope. Its energy comes from a power pack and battery which can be carried in a knapsack on the operator’s back.

Lone Girl Raises 15,000 Chickens In Indoor Cages

ADOPTING a system invented by Milton H. Arndt, of Trenton, N. J., a 19 year-old Long Island girl, Lillian Swenson, is raising and taking care of 15,000 chickens indoors. The chickens never see or need the sunlight for the necessary vitamin “D” is supplied in their food.

Each chicken has its own wire compartment measuring about one and a half feet square. Compartments are arranged in batteries of 100 chickens each making it possible to house them in a small area. Running water and individual feed troughs are located in each compartment.

Through the use of the indoor compartment system, using cellars, lofts, etc., and feeding the chickens scientifically balanced rations, mortality rate has been cut from 40-60% to less than 1%. So successful is this method that a large New York hotel raises its own chickens on the roof. The flavor of the eggs is said to be superior to those of barnyard chickens.

That sundial looks like something out of Hellraiser.

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a sundial for your garden

Sundials are not only decorative adjuncts to outdoor gardens and walls—they’re also fascinating and fairly reliable time tellers.

By Carl W. Bertsch

SUNDIALS may be made of a variety of materials; the only requirement is that they be weatherproof. Exterior-grade plywood, stainless steel, aluminum, opaque plastics, brass, copper, bronze, concrete, ceramics, and slate are all useful. Hour lines and numerals may be painted, etched, or carved.
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I’m always surprised at the quality and impartiality of Sexology’s articles. This article discusses a lot of the consequences of abortion being illegal that are just as applicable today. It’s interesting to note that nowhere in this article does does it mention the “right to life” or abortion being murder, the focal points of todays anti-abortion movement. One issue I did have is that the author seems to assume that all illegal abortions are done by doctors as opposed to hacks and back alley shysters. Obviously this makes a big difference in the quality of care and chance of complications.

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ILLEGAL ABORTION … disease of society

An international conference tackles an explosive problem involving more than 1 million women each year.

by Isadore Rubin, B.A., M.S. in Ed.

ILLEGAL abortion in the United States is a “disease of society” affecting possibly as many as 1,200,000 women a year. It presents a problem “as real and urgent as did venereal disease three decades ago.”

These major conclusions were offered by thirty-eight of the nation’s foremost experts after an international conference on abortion, sponsored by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The conference report has been published recently in book form.
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Novel Car Is Air-Conditioned for Summer and Winter

FOUR persons sit abreast in an automobile of revolutionary design recently completed in California. Equipped with a front-wheel drive, electric gear shift, and four forward speeds, the luxurious land yacht can attain speeds in excess of 120 miles an hour. Other features of the novel automobile include complete summer and winter air-conditioning, green-tinted safety glass to reduce glare, shock absorbers adjustable through a dash control, inclosed two-passenger rumble seat, and walls lined with cork and rubber for safety.

New British Airmail Rocket Successfully Passes Initial Test

\ANOTHER step toward the establishment of rocket airmail was reached in England recently when a rocket perfected by Gerhard Zucker, German inventor, successfully completed a short test flight.

Carrying a load of 1200 letters, the rocket was fired from Brighton and made a two-mile trip without damaging its cargo. The letters were then removed and posted in the ordinary manner. Encouraged by results of the test flight, a British rocket syndicate is planning a series of extensive experiments.

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Inside Our First Two-Man Spacecraft

Not just a scaled-up Mercury capsule, the Gemini spacecraft is a ship for astronauts to fly

By Wesley S. Griswold

WITHIN the next few months, for the first time in our space program, two U.S. astronauts are expected to go into orbit together.

Their vehicle, the Gemini spacecraft, is far more than just a Mercury built for two. Besides being half again as roomy and twice as heavy as Mercury was, it is much more complex and efficient. That is because it will have many intricate tasks to perform before it completes its 12 scheduled missions.
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Spray-on sausage skin

Fed by a mechanical mixer and hopper, this machine produces 180 sausages an hour with one operator. The British invention extrudes the meat, cuts it into lengths, and sprays on skin as sausages pass on a belt.

Skin, a pulverized-vegetable emulsion, is piped through nozzles as sausages leave the extruder. It dries in 30 seconds.

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Living Rat Traps RAISED ON NOVEL FARMS

In This Article, the Author Takes You for a Visit To a Strange “Ranch” Where Ferrets Are Bred by Thousands To Aid Man in His War Against Rodents
By Walter E. Burton

IF A MAN. . . make a belter mouse-trap than his neighbor,” someone said, “though he build his home in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.” The truth of this statement is being realized with profit by a number of “farmers” in the vicinity of New London, Ohio; only the traps are raised and not built, and they work equally well with rats, prairie dogs, and squirrels. New London is known as the ferret center of the world, because more of those animals are raised there than in any other place, some 25,000 a year being a conservative present-time estimate.
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One would think that after Kennedy was killed they would rethink the whole idea of a “Presidential Convertible”

The special Presidential convertibles get an updating

For 10 successive years United States Presidents have used the same two convertible limousines in official functions and parades. Now, at long last, Lyndon Johnson has a brace of spanking-new replacements. Lincoln Continentals, they have 11-inch-wide running boards, plus a retractable rear platform of equal width, for Secret Service men. A hand bar can be recessed flush with the trunk lid. The rear doors of the four-door cars are in two sections to allow agents a 15-inch walk-through. A transparent top permits surveillance of rooftops and other elevated structures.

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THE STORY of RADAR

The Army has lifted the veil of secrecy from its miraculous “seeing eye.”

ONLY at rare intervals during the war have we heard the word, radar, mentioned and then only in a hushed tone. We have known for quite a while, however, that our military has possessed a mysterious device which can reach out and “see” through clouds, fog and darkness, and that this same instrument has been a factor in Allied victories.
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So if you have a blood fetish it means you’re gay? I would think it means you just get turned on by blood. A little unsafe and outside the norm perhaps, but certainly no stranger than being turned on by tentacle porn.

Vampires are sick, psychiatrists assert

Human vampires do exist, according to two Denver psychiatrists, Drs. Richard L. Vanden Bergh and John F. Kelly. Rather than being “the undead,” the vampires are mentally ill. In the Archives of General Psychiatry, the two psychiatrists reported rare cases in which vampirism, or sucking another person’s blood, was part of a pattern of homosexual behavior.