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...tracked down 14 cases of blindness or near blindness among contact wearers and several hundred more of eye damage, all within three years. There was speculation that the damage might have come from impurities such as free acid in the methyl methacrylate plastic (akin to Plexiglas) used for the lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ophthalmology: O.K. for Contacts | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Siphoned Sound. Private detectives -fortunately-cannot count on cooperation from hotel managements, but they can often get into a victim's room by bribing subordinate employees. If the job is important and well paying, they try to plant at least three bugs to catch low-toned conversations in all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Look and its partners in the enterprise, Eastman Kodak Co. and Harris-Intertype Corp., which built the equipment that adds the plastic lens coat, have high hopes of commercial success. Cowles Magazines & Broadcasting, Inc., Look's parent company, plans to establish a separate corporation, to be called Visual Panographics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Look's Illusion | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

While police detectives braced his legs, Milwaukee Sentinel Photographer James G. Conklin, 40, leaned perilously out over the narrow building ledge and aimed his camera at the ground, seven stories below. Magnified by the camera's 300-mm. telescopic lens, the subject loomed sharp and clear. Conklin set his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: To Catch a Thief | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...made the prettiest girl look like a sea monster, can now buy a new kind of contact lens: a tiny mask made of shatterproof plastic that covers the entire eyeball. Invented by Washington, D.C., Optometrist Alan Grant and Navy Captain Edward Beckman, the new lenses cost $175 a pair, or roughly the same as regular contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Place: New Products | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

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