Word: precisionism
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Keeping his camera at a respectful distance, Freeman has photographed Washington's 16 years of peace in such overwhelming and sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge...
To the U.S., the signatures meant even more: San Francisco was the most clean-cut demonstration yet of what bold U.S. initiative can accomplish. This fact centered particularly on two men. John Foster Dulles had spent a year working his way through the barriers-the fears and natural prejudices of...
How good are the Russian jets? The only one U.S. pilots have met is the MIG-15, and they treat it with respect. Nothing can catch it except the U.S. F-86 Sabrejet, and then only under 30,000 feet. It has a more powerful engine, is lighter, more maneuverable...
"Clutter to Clarity" is as revealing as the sharp, clear color in which TIME [July 30] presented two of the rooms I designed for the opening of Corning Glass Works' new museum. The precision of the machine age appears to have created a new kind of elegance.
In France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the...