In two darkened rooms in the basement of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, a Yale psychologist is working on a prime problem in wartime human relations: how to see at night. Last week tall, affable Professor Walter Richard Miles reported that he was beginning to get somewhere. He had developed a pair of goggles to help Navy lookouts and plane spotters. Fresh from a three-month study of blacked-out London's darkness, he also had some helpful hints for civilians on how to get along when the lights go out.
A longtime student of night vision, Professor Miles explained that the retina of the...