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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no word to describe the new device when scientists first learned how to build it. But there seemed to be no limit to its potential. The fierce pure light they were coaxing out of synthetic crystals was so powerful that the military believed its long-sought super-weapon-a death ray-might finally become a reality. Applications in medicine and in industry seemed limited only by the human imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Power & Potential of Pure Light | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...doubtful that the offer, which has another week to run, will succeed. The Federal Communications Commission has entered the scene, particularly because Hughes already owns one television station in Las Vegas (KLAS-TV) and control of ABC would give him five more stations, one above the legal limit. The FCC last week ordered Hughes not to try to exercise control of the network without its approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Money at Work | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Griffin's rump group would have no hope on a direct vote, but with Congress rushing toward a hoped-for Aug. 3 adjournment, it might get its way with a filibuster. Though Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could ask for a vote of cloture to limit debate, he would need a two-thirds majority, always difficult to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHIEF CONFIDANT TO CHIEF JUSTICE | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...film as his "homage to Hitchcock." It is indeed filled with echoes of the old mas ter's style: long, slow tracking shots, comic functionaries, vibrant, stinging music. But for the most part, Truffaut is, happily, himself. Even Hitchcock could not stretch so many individual scenes to the limit-and still give them the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. Nor has he the almost Proustian ability to recapture the past in a skein of memories and desires. In its avoidance of a major theme, The Bride Wore Black opts for the minor genre of suspense; but within those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Bride Wore Black | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...having betrayed his heritage. Dionne Warwick singing Alfie? Impure! Diana Ross and the Supremes recording an album of Rodgers and Hart songs? Unacceptable! Yet many "deviations" may be solid professionalism, a matter of adapting to changing audiences. As Lou Rawls says, "Show business is so vast?why should I limit myself to any one aspect if I have the capabilities to do more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LADY SOUL SINGING IT LIKE IT IS | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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