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Avedon is possessed of a lens that is a subtler, cruder instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks tired, disillusioned, a little sly; Playwright Arthur Miller looks scrufty, torn by anxiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Gothic | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon's hand, indicated the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Into the Eye with Ultrasound | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...harrow strip of paper and gluing its ends together after giving the strip a half-turn. The loop that results has peculiar qualities. Most important, though the paper it is made of has two sides, the loop itself has only one surface. This can be proved by drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops but one long, narrow loop. Cut once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Making Resistors with Math | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Senate that tries to impeach him, and 4) a Russian Premier who believes that he must secretly hate the society that rejects him. Novelist Wallace (The Chapman Report) embarked on The Man, he reports, by taking up his note pad and pencil one evening "and writing in a frenzy whatever came to my mind until daybreak." Obviously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frenzy at Daybreak | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...villa. To get the folks back home, Perle provided a siren escorted shuttle service of minibuses, each marked PERLE'S PARTY LINE. The Mesta affairs were Atlantic City's top gate-crashing attractions-despite the fact that Perle herself was everlastingly vigilant, standing at the door with pencil and guest list in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Gay Life | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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