Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 Americans fall into this category; to help them see, Manhattan Optometrist Dr. William Feinbloom has developed "reading binoculars" that magnify 3.5 times and enable many of the legally blind who are not totally sightless to read with relative ease...
...tiny, high-powered units not only provide magnification but also correct aberrations. They are focused so that the lines of vision of both eyes converge at the normal reading distance of 16 inches. Since he developed the new glasses (price $300), Feinbloom has tried them out on 360 "blind" people. He has found fewer than ten whom they failed to help. Though designed especially for reading, they have proved useful in cooking, sewing, shopping-anything, says Feinbloom, that requires "good close vision...
...computer-controlled blind landings, the U.S. is somewhat behind British aviation, which has already made 15,000 fully automatic test landings with six different kinds of planes. British pilots keep their hands entirely off the controls as the plane descends, while electronic devices operate the control surfaces and throttle all the way to touchdown. British aviation authorities may certify the VC-10 and other aircraft for fully automatic landings in zero-visibility conditions on regular passenger flights as early as 1969. But U.S. landing systems are also being perfected. Last month a Pan Am jet made a fully automatic landing...
...images. Director Strick has preserved on his sound track as many of Joyce's words as he could, but most of the time he has used the images as a lecturer uses slides: simply to illustrate what is being said. Often the illustrations are inept. Joyce was half blind, and his Dublin is a city dimly seen but fantastically imagined. Strick's Dublin, however, is the ordinary place that shows up on postcards-even when Bloom sinks into parodic delusions of grandeur, the images in his fantasies remain invincibly normal and unexciting. The images, in effect, are afterthoughts...
Borges does not perceive the world as other men do. An eye illness made him blind ten years ago; moreover, his "stories" are not fiction but something more akin to thought patterns. Long ago, he began storing his visions in what he calls the "unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." And out of this darkness, from total recall, flash his scintillas of light...