Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first hour of a big story, a wire-service reporter's zeal and television's vivid eye often provide the best witnesses of the event. But then come the consequences-not so easy to photograph or to flash as a bulletin. Any confrontation so major as the Cuban crisis leaves behind it an international trail of responses, regrets and reappraisals. Sometimes these become the most lasting effect of the event, as peoples and their leaders take new account of the shifting forces, and respond accordingly...
...naval blockade of Cuba. Fresh from a two-day respite in Puerto Rico, where he engaged in his favorite sport of skin-diving, Vice Admiral Alfred G. Ward went back to sea to command Task Force 136. Once again, low-flying jet reconnaissance planes screeched over Cuba to photograph the state of the Soviet nuclear missiles...
...institute's ultramodern equipment, Director John R. Green is proudest of the massive electron microscope. Magnifying 200,000 times, it can photograph bits of matter as small as a brain cell. "We can study changes in single cells in tumors and changes due to aging," says Dr. Green. "We see this machine as ten tons of hope...
...came aerial films with truly worrisome signs. They showed roads being slashed through tall timber, Russian-made tents mushrooming in remote places. The order went out to photograph Cuba mountain by mountain, field by field and, if possible, yard by yard...
...classic comedy of cuckold and lover and the excruciating embarrassments involved have seldom been done so well in English. There is a party at the castle of Sir Magnus Donners, "the great industrialist," who is widely suspected of odd but harmless sexual deviations and is easily persuaded to photograph a charade in which his guests represent the seven deadly sins. Kenneth Widmerpool, whom Pow'ell addicts have already enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase...