Word: breakthroughs
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Eastman's successors are developing many innovative cameras of their own. Besides producing the new pocket Instamatics, which are expected eventually to outnumber the 60-million old-size units in use, Kodak in the last year has scored an important breakthrough in motion-picture photography. It has brought out two new 8-mm. cameras and a high-speed Ektachrome film that enable photographers to shoot movies indoors with no special lighting. In fact, the cameras produce adequate close-in pictures even when the only lighting is the candle power of a lit-up birthday cake. The bother of setting...
Trintignant's breakthrough came in 1966 with A Man and a Woman. The low-key love story was tailor-made to his personality by his friend, Director Claude Lelouch, and filmed without a script in four weeks. Offers began pouring in, but Trintignant had had enough of romantic parts. "Love scenes embarrass me," he says. "I'm not an exhibitionist." He now prefers political films that share his left-wing viewpoint (the most recent: The Assassination, based on the Ben Barka affair in France) and bad-guy roles "to counteract my own good nature." Costa-Gavras calls...
...week, after eight months of preliminary talks, the Red Cross organizations of the two Koreas finally agreed to an agenda for discussions this summer on the reuniting of families separated by the division of the country after World War II, 27 years ago. Even that was judged a significant breakthrough. Earlier, in a conversation with the New York Times's Harrison Salisbury, Premier Kim II Sung reiterated his demand for a complete withdrawal of the U.S.'s 43,000 troops from South Korea as a precondition of resuming normal relations...
This single pedagogical breakthrough may ease some of the traumatic middle-age career switches we have been witnessing in the postwar U.S. Kudos to Northeastern for holding the fort for all these years on behalf of the offspring of America's "children of the soil...
...psychological testing of consumers, and test marketing (TIME, Oct. 25). Humble researchers examined thousands of computer-chosen alphabetic combinations and words in 55 languages until they found one that seemed to stick in consumers' minds and had no obscene or embarrassing meanings in any foreign tongue. A major breakthrough was the finding that there is no word with a double X in any language except Maltese. Since the new trademark might eventually be used by Jersey Standard overseas, one of its present labels, Enco, was an early reject. It means "stalled car" in Japanese...