Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOOK FIRST: 3-D PHOTO," proclaimed the message on the cover. The Parallax Panoramagram "may mark the beginning of a new era in graphic-arts," said the press release. As it turned out, Look's first ran almost last in the magazine. On page 105, just short of the back cover, persevering readers found a stiff, postcard-size appendage, attached in the manner of a subscription renewal card. On the card was a black and white picture that showed a bust of Thomas Alva Edison surround ed by some half-dozen of his inventions. What made most readers stop...
...under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels in eight weeks. Said Photographic Thief Catcher Conklin: "I feel kind of sorry for the guy. But like they say, I guess crime doesn...
...that G.E. be allowed to buy into Machines Bull. Now that Callies has been rebuffed, the government may have some difficulty arranging its own solution. It wants to marry Machines Bull to such other French electronics firms as Compagnie Générale de Télégraphic Sans Fil, Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston, and Compagnie Générale d'Electricité, but none of these is anxious to wed a loser. The government, which has covered Machines Bull's obligations for December and January, may have to make the dowry more attractive...
...Hearst's tabloid Mirror, first casualty of the strike, released figures that added up to a graphic explanation of how the long, enforced silence had hastened the paper's end. The Mirror was already in distressing shape when the strike began; its last profit...
California's Pacifica Foundation, which operates radio stations in the San Francisco area, Los Angeles and New York, is a sort of low-frequency Hyde Park Speakers' Corner, providing broadcasting facilities for almost anyone who wants to express any point of view. Graphic sexology and earnest Communism often reach the air through Pacifica stations, plus smatterings of scatology and black magic, not to mention any number of broadcasts of the plays of Shakespeare, the works of Wagner, and the theological sentiments of people like George Herbert and John Donne...