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...Zurich, Swiss scientists using the CBS color system (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949) showed off a new television projector on a 9 ft. by 12 ft. theater screen. Based on the Eidophor method first developed for black & white projection, the new projector gets most of its light from an arc lamp rather than from the conventional cathode-ray tube. Claimed Swiss Institute Director Ernest Bauman: "It is now better than Technicolor movies...
...that according to both the registration rolls and the results of recent state and national elections, Party labels do not appear on the ballot. The leading candidates for municipal office are invariably Democratic. Republicans could not elect one of their men as mayor with the help of Aladdin's Lamp, but they can and do exert considerable influence as to what Democrats are elected--frequently having an obvious balance-of-power. It was only with solid Republican backing that Secretary of Labor Tobin and Mayor Hynes have been able to defeat former Mayor Curley in recent elections. It is difficult...
Meanwhile, as eight doctors held final consultations over X rays, the daily business of royalty went on. On Saturday night, Princess Elizabeth was scheduled to appear at a movie premiere (The Lady With a Lamp) for the benefit of the Royal College of Nursing. "Do you think she'll show up?" someone in the waiting crowd asked a bobby on duty. "Show up? Of course she'll show up," growled the bobby. "Good luck! How is he?" shouted the crowd when the Princess at last appeared. "This is a worrying time," she confessed inside the theater...
...from the water trickling down the chimney's walls and shivering with cold, Lépineux was brought to the surface three hours and 40 minutes later. During the descent, the spinning cable had made the walls seem to revolve so fast in the light of his head lamp that he had almost been sick. But once on the bottom, he had felt up to a little exploring...
Straight Down. By last week preparations were completed. Discoverer Lépineux had the traditional right to make the first descent. He buckled on his parachute harness, put a steel helmet over his woolen cap, adjusted his miner's head lamp and his altimeter, hooked his harness to the cable of the windlass and, after a quick handshake all around, stepped off into the void...