Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still photographer, however, works within the range of practicality, not possibility. Rather than making a movie and then selecting from thousands of feet of film, he chooses the critical moment in his mind and captures it on film by releasing the shutter at the right time. The 35-mm camera made it practical to compromise between these two extremes. The photographer may make several exposures of one scene and make his final selection again from the film. This is usually the case, and so critics have said that good pictures are just luck. If you take enough pictures, they...
...conditions aboard Apollo 204 during the tragedy-without humans. The suspect bundles were put in place and made to malfunction. The fire started. It remained invisible for five or six seconds and then came into view from Chaffee's seat. During the real fire, it was at this moment that Chaffee sounded the alarm. From then on, the pattern and intensity of the test fire followed almost to the second the pattern and intensity of the fire aboard Apollo 204 as reconstructed by scientists...
...that, last week's move was mostly psychological; in spite of the new rate, few member banks are likely to rush to the Federal Reserve's discount windows for loans. At the moment, they have all the money they need. A record rate of consumer saving and a decline in demand tor loans have pushed bank reserves to a four-year high. Bank deposits have increased 20% at an annual rate since the beginning of the year, while loans have dropped by $1.9 billion or 1.4%. Certificates of deposit, which hit a high of $18.6 billion during...
Less than Perfect. Nordhoff is leaving Volkswagen because he turned 68 in January, an age, he said last week, when "it is not only customary but even a compelling need to think in time about one's successor." The years, unfortunately, have overtaken him at a moment when Volkswagen-like the Wirtschaftswunder itself-is performing at less than capacity...
...life of an institution and the public reaction to it are greatly affected by the tone of its dominant student minority. The nature of this minority is quite volatile--now one thing, now another. At the moment, the nature is political...