Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Factor. On the Hilton's ninth floor, a huge photograph of Bob Taft proclaims to visitors that they are entering Taft headquarters. Jack Martin (908-A), Taft's executive assistant, is not missing any details. "The elevator service is a big factor," he says. "A lot may depend on whether a delegation can get upstairs...
...reproduction of the painting in a Dayton newspaper and thought it looked vaguely familiar. He went to the museum, took a good look, and calmly announced his verdict: the portrait was not a painting at all, but an ingenious oil tracing over a print of the famed "Cooper Union" photograph of Lincoln taken by Matthew Brady in 1860. Chemicals were applied, a bit of the oil wiped off, and sure enough, hidden under the paint was a print of Brady's old photo. Red-faced museum officials thought it just possible that there might be a real Nickum original...
...ethnologists cherish the Motilones as an unexploited treasure. They are one of the few remaining Indian groups in South America untouched by the white man's influence. Airplanes fly over their country and photograph their clearings, but that is about as close as anyone gets to the Motilones. Attempts to conciliate them, or even to talk with them, are met with flights of arrows out of the jungle. Their customs, language and religion remain a mystery. Presumably they have not changed since pre-Spanish times...
...archaeology, started searching for a way to make a permanent record of Christian art. This seemed a hopelessly ambitious scheme, for it meant listing every published example of early Christian art, describing it, compiling opinions on its date and meaning, and finally cataloguing it with a photograph. Scholars felt the need for such an index, but, says Professor Morey, "only we were fools enough to get on with...
...cross examination. Rugo's attorney cast some discredit on Storey's testimony by proving with a photograph that the started time of arrest was wrong. The picture showed Rugo's arrest and a clock in the background...