Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOSE odd-shaped objects in the background of this week's TIME cover are viruses-magnified more than 50,000 times and reproduced in their actual shape by machine and man. The viruses, which are measured in millionths of an inch, were first photographed by an electron microscope that produces an enlarged image of minute particles through the use of a beam of electrons. Working from electron-micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left...
Enthusiasm & Experience. The Peace Corps' youthful (average age: 24) teachers seem to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in experience. One of those with a classroom background is Dorothy Dee Vellenga, 24, who last year taught biology at the expensive Foxcroft school for girls in Middleburg, Va. Now she is in charge of all-male classes in biology and chemistry at the West Africa Secondary School in Accra. "It's certainly a refreshing change," she says. "The boys here are much more enthusiastic than the girls were at Foxcroft. They pay perfect attention, and you can hear...
Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
Because of this expansion in attitude and representation, the CRIMSON strongly endorses five of the CCA candidates: THOMAS COATES, whose background of active interest and participation in Cambridge affairs qualify him highly for election to the Council; and the incumbents Mayor EDWARD A. CRANE, JOSEPH A. DEGUGLIELMO, CORNELIA B. WHEELER, and PEARL K. WISE, all of whom have served the best interest of the city judiciously, competently, and for the most part, impartially, during the past two years...
Today, from an office on Manhattan's West 57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...