Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two of the on-board cameras were torn loose and wrecked. From the one camera left, Princeton Astronomer Donald Morton was able to recover only three frames of exposed film -and two of those were unusable. But that final frame turned the whole experiment into a resounding success. Last week...
Diminutive Presence. Now 41, Capote has executed an "esthetic experiment." He calls it a "new literary form" -a "nonfiction novel." It is an unfortunate term, as contradictory as it is pretentious. Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, a reconstruction in novel form of the Allied Normandy landings, Lillian Ross...
Made for Man. China shifted in 1912, and despite its violent antipathy to religion, Red China keeps Sunday as a day of rest. Russia in 1929 undertook the grand secular experiment of staggered days off during an uninterrupted work week, so that one-sixth of the workers were off on...
Perner was not the first to use osmic-acid vapor. Others had tried it without success. Undismayed when exposing pea cells to the vapor for two months failed to produce results, Perner doggedly lengthened the experiment to nine months and finally got his pictures. "My greatest achievement," he says, "was...
Miss Olson said that the committee of deans, which chose the girls plans to evaluate the program at the end of the term, asking the girls about the success of the experiment. "We haven't gone any farther in our thinking than that yet. Naturally, an evaluation will be very...