Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working on a leisurely schedule. Surveyor reported a new set of midday temperature readings and shot a short test series of television pictures. Additional picture taking was put off until later in the lunar day, when lengthening shadows would bring out more detail and perhaps even help determine if any meteors had struck near by since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they...
...long, bitter Kurdish war, an agreement is one thing, honoring it another. Twice in the past three years similar truces vanished in the hot, humid air because both sides could not agree on the fine print. Though the new agreement goes into more detail than the older truces, only time will tell whether it has a chance of success...
...Duddy, the Rodgers and Hammerstein of nightclubs. Since they teamed up nine years ago, they have masterminded 40-odd acts for nightclub singers-Robert Goulet, Gordon and Sheila MacRae, Jane Morgan, Teresa Brewer, Connie Francis, Bobby Vinton-providing everything from songs and arrangements to lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits...
...Room for Morality. Gideon Hausner was prosecutor for Israel in the Eichmann trial of 1961. In this powerful panorama of the courtroom scene, he prosecutes Eichmann still. The enormous Israeli effort that went into the preparation of the case against him, the painstaking attention to legal detail and justification, the wrenching attempt to be fair while partisan in judging and convicting the man-all of it is replayed in Hausner's tautly written pages. He admits his purpose plainly: neither the Jews nor the rest of the world should rest easily as long as the Nazi impulse still festers...
Died. Narcissa Thome, 84, widow of Montgomery Ward Heir James Thorne, who spent her life creating a world-famed collection of miniature rooms precise in every detail, from the Lilliputian Toby jugs in a colonial kitchen to the diminutive replica of a Fragonard painting in a Louis XVI salon, sometimes spending thousands on a single setting; of a heart attack; in Chicago...