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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even compromised in order to placate audiences, Kubrick's handling of the visual relationship between time and space is more than impressive. He has discovered that slow movement (of space crafts, for example) is as impressive on a Cinerama screen as fast movement (the famous Cinerama roller-coaster approach), also that properly timed sequences of slow movement actually appear more real--sometimes even faster--than equally long long sequences of fast motion shots. No film in history achieves the degree of three-dimensional depth maintained consistently in 2001 (and climaxed rhapsodically in a shot of a pulsating stellar galaxy); Kubrick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Junior Ray Peters leaned back in practice yesterday and fired his famous fastball, but it didn't jump the way it did last season when he boasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peters Trying to Regain Last Year's Fastball Grip | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Salber had had previous experience with public health. She was born and raised in Capetown, South Africa. After graduation from Capetown University Medical School, now made famous by Dr. Christian Barnaard, she and her husband went to work in a demonstration health center in Durban on the east coast of the country. These federally-operated clinics had been founded in 1945 by Henry Gluckman, a Cabinet Minister in the moderate United Party government. (The United Party is today strongly pro-apartheid...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: A Housing Project and a Health Clinic--From Body Counts To "Personalized Medicine" | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

...than some horrid divorce-court testimony by ex-Wife Dyan Cannon to dim the ardor of Gary Grant's devoted legions. There he was, three weeks after that nasty automobile crackup, bounding out of a Queens, New York, hospital looking nowhere near his 64 years and flashing that famous grin as several hundred shrieking females gathered to wish him well. "I feel great," said Gary, and proved it by planting a kiss on the cheek of Sister Thomas Francis, executive director of the hospital. "Oh, my," said Sister Francis, blushing. "Isn't that nice. Maybe he respects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1968 | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...taking flecks of paint from genuine Rembrandts and Vermeers, then bombarding them with neutrons in a reactor in order to measure their exact chemical impurities. In time, the Mellon Institute hopes to compile a library of chemical analyses of the different types of paint used by a dozen famous artists-or at least the type of paint used in the country and period of each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes & Frauds: Atoms for Detection | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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