Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of increasing camera problems, project controllers huddled at week's end, trying to decide whether to scrub the scheduled plan of lowering the spacecraft to within 28 miles of the lunar surface in order to photograph nine target areas where astronauts may some day walk (see diagram). At that height, the orbiter's high-resolution 600-mm. lens could shoot objects as small as a card table. At last they decided to go ahead, hoping that under different conditions of lunar orbit, the camera might well begin operating properly again...
Where did it all lead? To the experts, of course. Shown a photograph of the painting, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Assistant Curator Thomas N. Maytham noting the massive angular shapes, suggested that "one black blotch may represent the profile of the President's head, a very direct and specific depiction of the most brutal moment of the tragedy, when Kennedy was struck by the bullet. The lines near the 'pro file,' " he said, "represent either the trajectory of the bullets or spatters of blood. It is hideous in one sense," he concluded, "because it doesn...
...that betray the presence of the Viet Cong. "We can't kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter. "I'd like to see him start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply line becomes, and the less there is that reaches...
...case of more obscure people, what makes a figure public is often painfully difficult to define. In a classic example, is a newspaper violating privacy by publishing the photograph of a woman jumping to her death? Her husband thought so, and sued the Los Angeles Examiner. But the state courts ruled in effect that by choosing such a spectacular method of killing herself, his wife had made herself a public figure, thereby forfeiting the right of privacy...
...this year, southbound enemy truck traffic has doubled over that during the same 1965 period, while delivery of Red supplies south of the 17th parallel has jumped 150% and of troops 120%, to an estimated 4,500 men a month. As evidence, McNamara displayed a recent infra-red reconnaissance photograph of a 51-truck convoy creeping bumper-to-bumper at night down a North Vietnamese section of the trail. Said he: "Some of these routes are new, some have been widened and upgraded for all-weather truck use. Bypasses have been built, and bamboo-trellised canopies rigged over some jungle...