Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany by Marshall Loeb, who edits TIME color projects, and Photographer Jerry Cooke. Their entries also took much wangling, but once inside the country they encountered only minor harassment. Once, while Cooke was photographing the Wall from the western side, a soldier from the other side kept blinking a mirror into his lens. One frustration for the visiting journalist in East Germany is the obligatory, ever-present "guide," for whose services the government charges $40 a day. Nickel's escort was a friendly but ideologically correct type who called the Western correspondent "beloved enemy." But, said Nickel, "when...
...dropped 30 lbs. in eleven weeks, as a result dared to wear a bathing suit for the first time in her life on a recent Caribbean vacation. And when New Jersey Housewife Fran Jaffe, 38, took off 50 Ibs., her pleased husband presented her with a full-length mirror, to which he lovingly attached a note: "You are the fairest of them...
...trial for their lives and are tested by the ordeal of life. Hamp is not even remotely a protagonist on this grand tragic scale: a World War I private from the British North Country, he has deserted in battle and is to stand court-martial. But in catching a mirror image of existence in the features of a frightened boy, Playwright Wilson raises questions that have disturbed and puzzled men since war began...
...with an airline or something." She grew like a beanstalk on a hill of hormones. One day, after staring appalled at her reflection, she broke into tears and telephoned her mother, who was weekending in the country. "Mummy! Mummy!" she cried, "I just looked in your mirror and I can't see my head!" Daddy as usual had the answer: "Don't worry about being tall. Hold yourself up and be splendid." He prescribed ballet, and the medicine worked. Vanessa's grace and poise improved, and she showed her mettle in school theatricals. At 14, she played a St. Joan...
...Morse code: after appearing in a succession of turkeys-most recently Oh Dad, Poor Dad (TIME, March 3)-Bobby is finally allowed to steal a picture the way he stole the show. He burbles with the irresistible energy of a degenerate Peter Pan as he chants to a mirror, I Believe...