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Then Bower's indulgent boss is killed in a cab accident. His replacement as agency head is George Brice, who looks like a druggist and talks fluent corporatese. Brice's reputation is based on the Relief headache-remedy ad, showing a diagram of a headache inside a head being attacked by little cowboys on horses. The cowboys are Relief's ingredient Sooth-X, and they got into the ad by decisively defeating little airplanes, tigers, rocket ships and genies in consumer testing reports. Brice's goal is to replace Gibbs & Wilson's list of luxury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Desert | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...film pack rather than inside the instrument itself. Polaroid engineers designed a wafer-thin battery that will be packaged inside every container of SX-70 film. The film is exposed by a tricky system of mirrors, including one that lifts up to reflect the final image (see diagram, page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Polaroid's Big Gamble on Small Cameras | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...confused. Working "up to his elbows," as he put it later, he mixed up the different clamps he used to mark the ends of the bypassed small intestine. As a result, he hooked the ileum to the colon, connected the end of the small intestine to the jejunum (see diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dead End | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...Take these-consecutive sentences, suggested by the phrasebook. "Whose invention is this? When was this invention patented? This is a Soviet invention." A more forthright approach is manifested by: "Show us your devices for outer space research work. How powerful is this reactor? Show me a working diagram of the reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Having What to Learn | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...typical LED display, such as those made by RCA, Monsanto or General Electric, each digit is formed of seven separately wired segments on a single base plate (see diagram). Reminiscent of matchsticks laid out for a parlor game, the segments are so arranged that they can form any digit from 0 to 9. The trick is to send an electric current into the proper combination of segments to form the required number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Optoelectronics Arrives | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

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