Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera during the astronauts' lunar explorations. Sitting at his large, 15-button console in Houston, Fendell operated the RCA camera from a quarter of a million miles away. With a push of the appropriate button, he could swing it across the mountain-ringed horizon, raise it up to focus on a peak or lower it to peer down Hadley Rille. He could zoom in on the astronauts for a closeup or even adjust the lens opening to compensate for the moon's harsh lighting conditions...
...simulate the moon's distance. Perhaps just as difficult was the need to satisfy the conflicting demands of two masters: scientists and the public. NASA's geologists were primarily interested in terrain and rocks, while NASA's public relations men and the television networks wanted to focus on the astronauts themselves for a maximum amount of time. NASA worked out a compromise to appease both scientific inquiry and public curiosity...
Winter and summer, 4-H programs now take place in housing projects instead of grange halls. They focus livestock study on guppies and puppies, horticulture on window boxes and seeding bald lawns. Rather than driving tractors, youngsters learn to select, finance and insure used cars. Particularly for poor children, the projects teach what often amount to survival skills. Sewing sessions emphasize patterns that do not require sewing machines; in cooking, recipes feature low-cost staples like powdered milk and eggs. Several Indianapolis clubs have collaborated on programs to eradicate rats...
...riven by political and religious strife and on the verge of military collapse. According to the cable's ungainly prose, Lodge was directed to impress on Diem that, among other things, he should: "A. Clear the air. Diem should get everyone back to work and get them to focus on winning the war. B. Buddhists and students. Let them out and leave them unmolested. C. The press should be allowed full latitude of expression. While tendentious reporting is irritating," the White House cable continued, "suppression of news leads to much more serious trouble." Lodge demurred that it was hopeless...
...lettermen are types rather than individuals, traced from undergraduate days to their adulterous 40s. Nichols opens with a series of kinetically hilarious sketches, starring Campus Smoothie Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and his pre-med buddy Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Cinematically, Nichols has never been less tricky or more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan...