Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innkeeping clan). Half of the book, and its heart, consists of 40 color plates taken from two Japanese scrolls of the time. Such scrolls, which unrolled horizontally up to 40 ft., served as the picture books and newsreels of feudal Japan. To document Perry's arrival, and satisfy their feudal masters' incorrigible curiosity, Japanese artists swarmed aboard Perry's six black ships, sketching virtually everything in sight with swift brush strokes on mulberry-bark paper. Their captions are often as eerily strange as their pictures, which confirmed the Japanese notion that all Westerners had enormous noses...
...last week, Goldwater went to Hershey armed with a carefully honed speech. It was drafted largely by former Eisenhower Advisers Bryce Harlow and Ed McCabe in consultation with Goldwater and Ike; it was a fascinating document, in both tone and content (see box). "This speech," observed a close Goldwater associate, "is what he should have said at San Francisco...
...letter from the Pope to the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, setting forth his views on anything he chooses for serious consideration, but not necessarily an infallible document. This papal device has been much in use since 1891, when Leo XIII issued his influential Rerum Novarum, on the church's attitude toward labor...
Ampex's Videofile system condenses bulky file folders to tiny reels of television magnetic tape, enabling 250,000 document pages to be stored on a 14-in. reel. At the push of a button, from any number of locations and at great distances, Videofile's computer automatically locates the individual file-on-film, then reproduces it as pictures on a TV screen or as printed copies-all in less than a minute. The operator can scan the TV screening of the file, get printed copies of only what portions he needs. More important, says Ampex, individual file entries...
Senator Goldwater's letter to Richard Nixon in explanation of the Senator's previous utterances about extremism ranked for a few days as the most fascinating political document of the year...