Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Martin" got not only a foolproof identity card. He carried a picture of "Pam," the girl he was "engaged" to, her last touching love letters, stubs of theater tickets, a dunning letter from a bank, a letter from his "father" and the usual pocket impedimenta. His identity-card photograph was that of a man who looked like him. The letters he was os tensibly to have carried to North Africa in a plane that crashed were actually signed by high officials, two of them by Lord Louis Mountbatten. To keep the body from deteriorating on the trip to Spain...
...idea behind the project is to photograph not only the society's collection, but also the smaller ones scattered about the country, and to assemble the material at Yale. There, Historian Leonard Labaree will set up a "Franklin factory'' to do the editing job. Over the next 15 years, with funds raised from friends and alumni, the Yale University Press will publish the Franklin volumes...
...mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra-red photograph, which showed that there was indeed an other head beneath the first...
Neither of the experts could determine from the photograph whether the second head was anything more than Michelangelo's own rough draft, but they resolved to gamble that it was complete, and set about removing the top head. "We were scared when we started scraping," De Campos confesses, "because, had there been nothing much underneath and had we beheaded that horse, no one would have ever forgiven...
...From the patient on the operating table are leads to an electrocardiograph that projects tracings on a wall screen. Also projected are lines showing the pulse, the heart sounds, and the pressure in each side of the heart. Attached to the table is an X-ray machine that will photograph the heart and major blood vessels after opaque dye is injected into the bloodstream. The surgeon can order these projected on a giant screen within minutes after an exposure in order to keep a running check on the effects of the operation...