Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trotting photographer was William Vandivert, taking a series of color pictures for this week's story on the modernization of U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS). Vandivert's previous color portfolios for TIME have included such varied pictorial reports as Abilene's Eisenhower Museum (TIME, April 5, 1954), Anderson Hospital in Houston (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), automation in industry (TIME, March 19) and football at Michigan State University (TIME...
...this week's color story on railroading, Vandivert traveled for two months and some 23,000 miles up and down and across the U.S. To help him get his pictures, railroaders everywhere set up special timetables for their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis...
...Troika. As polling day approached, the campaign took on the color of a hard-fought and genuine democratic election. Unity Front headquarters sent teams of three candidates (Communist, Peasant, Democrat), called "Troikas," galloping through the suburbs, while hundreds of larger teams descended on the provinces. In Lodz, Aeroclub planes dropped Unity Front leaflets, and Boy Scouts canvassed from door to door. In Warsaw there were two masked balls, with mazurkas and rock 'n' roll, under huge banners: "Remember October achievements when you vote...
...Knowing that many cases of apparent blindness are relieved by a shock, Griffin explained: "There was no bump, no jar. Nothing had happened. Suddenly everything looked like red sand in front of my eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...
...score were labored and discursive. In the war scenes, the opera stiffened with self-conscious patriotism, which Prokofiev illustrated with military airs that occasionally verged on the banal. But overall, War and Peace was a notable achievement. Whatever it lacked in sustained dramatic effect it made up in color, movement, and the driving force of lyric melody and great choral frescoes...