Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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De Silva's point was unarguable. Unionism is woven throughout the fabric of present American life, both social and economic. "The labor movement," says Chicago's Sidney Lens longtime labor leader and writer, "is really a carbon copy of capitalism." It is more than that: it is capitalism...
"Lord," says an A.F.L.-C.I.O. official in Washington, "I haven't heard Joe Hill sung at a meeting in 15 years-or anything else, for that matter." The typical local meeting is deadly dull and poorly attended. Members generally wear slacks and sport shirts, including bowling-and softball-league...
*A Zeiss Ikon Contarex with 200-mm. I 4 lens and a modified Questar telescopic lens (equal to a 50-in. telescope); a Hasselblad 500-C with Zeiss 70-mm. lens; a Widelux panoramic camera for photographing horizons; and a 16-mm. movie camera specially built by McDonnell Aircraft.
On Feb. 11, JPL signaled for a checkout of Mariner's photographic apparatus. The commands turned on and then turned off power to the tape recorder, and pointed the TV camera as it would have to be when it got close to Mars. Everything functioned well. Recalling the dust...
True, anyone reading White's book 100 years from now is going to have to wade through a lot of footnotes to catch up to Theodore H.White's knowledge of American politics. But the same is true of a lot of classics, like Boswell's Life of Johnson, to which...