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As though trying to make the TV lens blink first, Ohio's five-term Democratic Governor Frank Lausche turned his massive head and stared squarely into the eye of the Meet the Press camera. Making a rare appearance on national television last week, Lausche's words were just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unblinking Candidate | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

The hero is a Swiss League of Nations observer bent on having one long extra-marital fling. The nameless heroine is a petite Japanese Mademoiselle Butterfly, who he hopes will prove a piece-de-non- resistance. But a series of Japanese throw themselves in his way, not to save her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personal Publisher | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

When British Surgeon Harold Ridley took the daring step of implanting a tiny plastic lens inside the eye of a patient operated on for a cataract (TIME, Feb.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lenses for Old | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Now a German ophthalmologist, Er-langen's Professor Eugen Schreck, reports a danger-free adaptation of the Ridley technique. Instead of following nature closely, as did Ridley, in putting the plastic lens behind the iris, in the position of the removed natural lens, Surgeon Schreck puts his lens in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lenses for Old | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

And instead of plastic, he uses a glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lenses for Old | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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