Word: compressibility
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TIME has tried to compress into the booklet as many such facts as are needed to make the conventions meaningful to the average voter and citizen. In addition to being a convention guide, the booklet is also designed as a personal record book, which you may wish to keep as a souvenir of one of the most important events of this decade...
...when he painted a reproduction of the Last Supper for a Franciscan refectory in Bengasi, Libya. Later, he pored over portraits of Leonardo by contemporary artists, studied descriptions, drew up charts detailing the painter's hair, beard, nose, eyes, mouth and cheekbones. He photographed the original to compress and sharpen the faded outlines, then worked in the features, adding light and shadow. After years of work, Ferri has a 328-page illustrated manuscript crammed with his notes and impressions. One impression: the Apostle Thaddeus' whole manner and bearing point to Leonardo; he is a man "indifferent to what...
...delightful production of the one sure-fire hit of them all, The Mikado. Enlivened by the sparkling choreography of Adele Hugo, the Winthrop House Musical Society has presented a lively and original interpretation of the fantasy of love and intrigue in Titipu. Best of all, it has managed to compress on the tiny stage of the Winthrop Junior Common Room a great deal more activity than is usually seen in amateur Gilbert and Sullivan productions...
Bottled Air. Another aeropause problem is air. Crewmen must have the kind of air they are accustomed to, and such air is hard to find in the aeropause. To compress the thin outside air to breathable density and dissipate the heat of compression would take heavy machinery, and the air so gathered might not be fit to breathe. At 100,000 ft. it contains enough ozone, formed out of oxygen by the sun's ultraviolet light, to poison crewmen. Probably the air they breathe will have to be "bottled...
Thin Air. Cliff Garrett's associates like to say that "he built a business out of thin air." He literally did. His Garrett Corp. (AiResearch is a manufacturing division) grew by making devices to cool, blow and compress air, is now outranked only by Bendix and Sperry in the aircraft accessory business...