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...frozen people!"), Hope asked about the searchlight crew, pushed up to the outpost and performed a second show-for two lonely, grateful men. In 1963, just before his annual Christmas tour, Hope suffered a blood clot in his left eye. Doctors saved his sight with laser-beam surgery. While he was recuperating, his U.S.O. company went on without him to Ankara. Hope flew to Germany where an Air Force plane picked him up and ferried him to Turkey. "He looked like a sick man," says one of his assistants, "but when he walked on the stage, the roar that went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Comedian as Hero | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy had good cause to beam as he lit up a huge victory cigar after the meet. Four Briggs Cage records fell Saturday to Harvard trackmen, including the marks erased by Baker, the shot put record, and the mile-relay time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Records Shattered | 12/11/1967 | See Source »

...restraint made the opera's few moments of overt action all the more effective. As Hero Siegmund and Villain Hunding waged their battle at the end of Act II, a single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: OPERA: Conductor Herbert von Karajan | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Strauch said he would not make major changes in the work being carried on at the Accelerator, but that the emphasis on particular experiments might be altered. A large part of the efforts of Accelerator students and Faculty are now directed towards building a colliding beam facility, he said. The project will study the evidence of electro-magnetic forces and the creation of high-energy particles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karl Strauch Is Named As New Accelerator Head | 11/28/1967 | See Source »

...chromosome closeups were made by German scientists at the University of Münster, using the recently developed scanning electron microscope. Unlike the conventional electron microscope, which forms an image by passing an electron beam through extremely thin slices of a specimen, the scanning device plays a fine electron beam back and forth across the surface of the object being examined. Electrons knocked out of the surface of the specimen by the scanning beam are collected and converted into signals that are projected on a television screen in the form of a picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cytology: A Close Look at Heredity | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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