Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notably last week, just another week in the life of the daily newspaper, the break of the news seemed to dramatize the human scene at less lofty levels, to bring into focus the old, old fact that with the wise must come the foolish, the weak, the greedy and the evil. In terms of journalism, it was tabloid week. Two great universities were rocked to their foundations by campus scandals. Eleven students resigned from Yale after a 14-year-old nymphet, daughter of a well-to-do Hamden, Conn, family, named them as her partners (along with 20 others...
...weeks since the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. issued a statement opposing the use of U.S. funds to underwrite artificial birth control programs abroad, the population explosion, a longstanding topic of worldwide discussion, became the focus of an emotional U.S. debate. Four weeks ago, bent on penetrating the cloud of ignorance and misinformation that shrouds the argument, TIME'S editors began work on this week's cover story. In so doing, they set in motion a journalistic process unique in its functioning and unrivaled in its ability to cut to the heart of great issues...
...Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off an experimental three-dimensional television set at the Home Furnishings Show in Chicago. Two TV cameras take separate pictures of the same scene, focus them on the screen at the same time. Viewer, by wearing special 3-D eye glasses, sees only one scene with his left eye, the other scene with his right eye -thus gets 3-D effect...
Closeup View. But it was at Camp David, the presidential retreat on a Maryland mountaintop, that Khrushchev's visit came into focus with its greatest meaning to 1959. At Camp David, under a canopy of oak leaves, the President of the U.S. and the Premier of the U.S.S.R. walked and talked along winding gravel paths, lived together for three days in Ike's grey, batten-board Aspen Lodge...