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...close-up of the Russian, his face alternately basking as if in sunlight and marinating in some quick-starting annoyance. Sipping his favorite Georgian mineral water or brooding while the interpreter did his work, K. sat impassively, his round head filling the TV screen and looking like an oversized bead in a gun sight. What Susskind later described as Khrushchev's "physical amiability" was constantly evident, as he nudged, elbowed, fingered his squirming interviewer...
Sometimes inventors draw a bead on one target, score a bull's eye on another. Sacramento's Aerojet-General Corp., prime contractor for the Polaris missile's propellant, found that when the solid fuel was molded, bubbles tended to form, caused trouble in firing. To find the bubbles, the company had to haul the finished rocket motor to a giant X-ray laboratory, spend two to three weeks taking pictures. Aerojet's radiation experts went to work, found they could do the job in hours by slipping in a radioactive cobalt pill, using photon-counters...
...first political excursion into the South since his nomination, Jack Kennedy covered exactly six miles. Over the Potomac and into the Washington bedroom community of Alexandria he drove with Vice Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson to draw the sharpest bead yet on Vice President Nixon. A partisan audience of 15,000, overflowing the George Washington High School stadium, roared with every shot...
...radio star in the Bootes constellation. Radio astronomy was then too crude to give accurate directions-and when Minkowski tried to photograph the phenomenon with Palomar's telescope, he found nothing. But new radio telescopes at Cambridge and in Owens Valley, Calif, recently drew an accurate bead on the radio star in Bootes. Minkowski pointed the Palomar telescope at the spot indicated. And after exposing a photographic plate for two hours, he got his picture of two big galaxies in collision...
...early 20th century, middle-class Suburbia was a reality in England, and Social Historian C.F.G. Masterman was perhaps the first of a legion of urban critics to draw a bead on it. Each little red house, he wrote in 1909, "boasts its pleasant drawing room, its bow window, its little front garden . . . The women, with their single domestic servants, now so difficult to get. and so exacting when found, find time hangs rather heavy on their hands. But there are excursions to shopping centers in the West End and pious sociabilities, occasional theater visits and the interests of home...