Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 14 cameras set up around the world, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., will photograph every 15 minutes of the comet's journey. NASA plans to launch sounding rockets with instruments to analyze the spectrum of the comet; the crew of Gemini 6 will attempt to take pictures of it on their mission, which is scheduled to start...
...people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something; but, more important, it provides an excuse for reactivating the Department...
Stieglitz became much more abstract in his later years. Told by some friends that he owed the quality of his pictures as much to his subjects as to himself and wanting to test the extent of his creative ability, Stieglitz turned to photographing clouds. "I wanted to photograph clouds to find out what I had learned in 40 years about photography. Through clouds to put down my philosophy of life--to show that my photographs were not due to subject matter--nor special privileges, clouds were there for everyone--no tax on them yet--free." He called these pictures "Equivalents...
...cameras photograph Ho Chi Minh's missile sites. Its sensitive in struments help police to identify paint smears on hit-and-run victims, enable conservationists to check traces of water pollution in fish. Its products helped in the creation of the first atomic bomb, also made possible the production of synthetic penicillin and vitamin B12. All of these tasks-and many more- are the business of a little-known Connecticut company named Perkin-Elmer Corp., one of the fastest growing members of the fast-growing scientific instrument industry. Variety has paid well for Perkin-Elmer: last week it reported...
...also branched into laser technology, produces the powerful gas lasers used in tracking missiles. For the U.S. space program, it makes the instruments that align the Saturn and Centaur guidance systems, the infra-red sensors that monitor carbon dioxide inside the Apollo spacecraft, and the cameras that photograph-and sometimes ride on-the rockets launched from Cape Kennedy. Its balloon-borne telescopes analyzed the atmosphere and climate of Mars long before Mariner spacecraft ever got near that planet...