Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again when the pair flew from Paris on to Rome for an audience with Pope Paul VI. The meeting was held in secret to avoid straining the good relations between the Vatican and The Netherlands. But the story leaked out; so, against the Pope's wishes, did a photograph. While the Dutch government and the royal palace were still vigorously denying the story, the picture of the Pope with the couple arrived by wirephoto in Amsterdam newspaper offices and was splashed all over the evening editions...
...easy swipe for the American, which prints by the offset process; all the paper had to do was cut out a Republic box score, paste it up on a dummy of its own sports page and then photograph and engrave the whole page. A very useful trick for a small, struggling daily without much money to spend. But the Republic's Gianelli decided to fix the American's wagon. So into one box score he inserted a damning phrase-REPRINTED FROM REPUBLIC. Sure enough, it came out that way in the American that same afternoon...
...Palomar telescope can photograph swarms of galaxies out at the limit of its vision, but most of them look like blurry blobs, and they are much too faint for their spectra to be photographed. Only exploding galaxies 100 times brighter than normal give such meaningful information about what was happening billions of years ago in the depths of space. A dozen such galaxies have been found so far, and astronomers are confident that many more can be found by the kind of radio scouting that stirred up interest in 3C-147. The spectrum of their ancient light may tell whether...
...interesting to note that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...
This Ripleyesque state of affairs was not, alas, an act of God. A Times censor, presumably convinced that bare belly-buttons are titillating in Los Angeles, painted the offending detail out of the photograph. Surely, censorship in California has reached the end of its umbilical cord...