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Pacific Venice. When the U.S. took the mid-Pacific island of Ponape from the Japanese, it fell heir to an unsolved mystery. On a reef off the east coast of the dot-on-the-map island are a great stone fortress and 50 artificial islets. Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built...
Light which reaches them through one edge of the camera lens makes a dot-&-dash picture on the sensitive emulsion behind the ridges. Light passing through the opposite edge of the lens makes a slightly different picture. When the negative is looked at with both human eyes, it seems to be three-dimensional. Each eye, being in a slightly different position in relation to the lenslike ridges, sees a different picture. The two pictures, combining, give the appearance of depth...
...form . . . but even at 70 I had little skill. Only at 73 did I begin to understand how rightly to represent animals, birds, insects, fish, plants. At 90 I shall be better, at 100 I shall be sublime; at no I shall give life to every line, to every dot. Let no one mock at these words...
Labor's Magna Carta. Getting down to specific measures, Joe Ball frankly admits that he cannot dot all the i's. The best he can do in some cases is point out reforms. These are high on his list: the need for better federal mediation machinery; the need to discourage industry-wide bargaining (to which "the only answer so far has been Government seizure"); the need to protect individuals and minorities within a union (who are now the victims of "monopolies as vicious as any attempted by the unlamented trusts of a few decades...
Constantly in touch by radio, the underground of Tel Aviv dot-dashed the plan to the ship. The refugee radio operator, who could not speak English, painfully deciphered the messages in his Webster. The plan: a fleet of small boats would go out to meet the ship and would then put ashore refugees over a wide area of the coast in an "assault landing." Underground terrorists, who had ceased their attacks throughout Palestine for nearly a week, were ready to hold off police during the landing...