Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flash photos have long been a matter of luck and frustration for the amateur photographer. Either he totes around cumbersome, electronically-charged strobe lights that always seem to go on the blink at the wrong moment or stuffs his pockets full of flashbulbs that have to be coaxed into the camera's flash gun before every photograph. Now Sylvania and Kodak have developed a neat solution-the Sylvania flashcube, which is no larger than an ice cube and contains four miniature flash bulbs, each with its own built-in reflector. Packaged in threes for $1.95, the plastic-coated cube...
...important new discoveries in superconductivity. Liquid hydrogen came into its own when it was put to use in bubble chambers for experiments in high-energy physics. In such studies, accelerators smash the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, scattering subnuclear debris through the bubble chamber, where scientists can follow and photograph the paths of the tiny charged particles by their tracks of small bubbles. This technique, which was to have been used at Cambridge, has led to the discovery and identification of many new particles...
...employee who goes to the police station to be registered fills out a form giving his permanent address, age, next of kin, and other details, and is photographed and fingerprinted. For a charge of two dollars he is issued an identification card bearing his photograph. An-other photograph and a set of fingerprints is kept on file with the town...
...heartiest congratulations for printing the grotesque photograph of the beheaded chap. It was worth more "than a thousand words in explaining to the pacifistic American citizenry the acts against humanity committed by the Viet Cong...
...fifth, Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with racial and religious information on each applicant - and a photograph to boot...