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...smoked glass. At least two thicknesses of photographic film, fully exposed in daylight and overdeveloped, are needed to make a safe filter. The wiser witness will view the eclipse indirectly, with his back to the sun. This can be done by punching a hole with a pin or sharp pencil in a sheet of cardboard (which serves as a primitive camera) and observing the moon's progress on another sheet of white card a few feet away. The Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness recommends a sunscope built from a large cardboard box with a pinhole...
...whole bank of television-type screens. With the flick of a switch he can call up the image of all the elements of his newspapers-wire service copy, a reporter's typescript, carefully catalogued material from the morgue. Wielding a tiny electronic stylus instead of a pencil, he changes words, makes erasures, shifts paragraphs. Every move, every judgment is recorded in the console's electronic memory. The job done, the editor presses a button and the corrected copy jumps into view, set and spaced just as it will appear in print. Photographs are chosen in the same manner...
Though interpretations will vary with individual tax examiners, and Congress may jiggle the rules later, it looks as if almost any businessman with a sharp pencil, a touch of imagination and the patience to keep detailed records can deduct fairly freely. But few businessmen who cater to the expense-account trade seemed to be overjoyed. "It certainly doesn't do anything for me," grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major...
...m.p.h. and in an oval that ranged from 109 miles to 139 miles above the earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...
Behind his desk, of course, Father is a child playing at Big Deal. Designed to delight his foolish heart is an I Am an Executive pencil box, with gold-tone paper clips, candy pills, key to the executive washroom, tension reducers, plus pencils, for only $3.95. To help him make quick decisions so that he can get home early, there is a swiveled silver dollar mounted on a paperweight, for mature heads-or-tails judgment...