Word: safran
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...reproduced in their actual shape by machine and man. The viruses, which are measured in millionths of an inch, were first photographed by an electron microscope that produces an enlarged image of minute particles through the use of a beam of electrons. Working from electron-micrograph prints, Artist Bernard Safran enlarged the viruses somewhat more to obtain the proper effect for the cover. Among those he chose to use, the sticklike viruses at upper left are the tobacco mosaic virus, which figured importantly in early virological discoveries made in the 19th century; the smaller, pellet-shaped viruses at the upper...
...painting this and other covers for TIME (this is his 26th), Painter Safran did some laboratory work of his own. Borrowing a technique from the old masters (the general idea is described in The Secret Formulas and Techniques of the Masters, by Jacques Maroger), Safran mixes his own medium. He whips up a potion of raw linseed oil, litharge (lead monoxide) and natural sun-bleached beeswax, and cooks it over a slow fire for two hours, stirring often and being careful that it does not boil. He then stores the product, which is called black oil and looks like axle...
...While Safran was stirring his paint and laboring over his canvas, Associate Editor Gilbert Cant and Researcher Jean Bergerud, as well as 17 TIME correspondents around the U.S., were visiting laboratories and quizzing virologists to put together the cover story. Touring a virus and vaccine laboratory, Medicine Writer Cant donated five milliliters of blood for testing, later found that he was low on polio antibody, was persuaded to take a swig of oral polio vaccine. After Writer Cant and Senior Editor William Forbis had put the final touches on the cover story about Virologist John Enders* and medicine...
...paper made to his specifications at the Mead Paper Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., and flew down to make sure of the quality. Engravings were made in New York by Len Perskie. Then Phillips was off to Detroit to oversee the reproduction by the Safran Printing Co., which used an offset press to give finer detail. To Phillips, it is all part of the week's work, but there can be nothing casual about careful color reproduction...
...petition. One of them takes its readers from the statement itself to the home of one of the sponsors, Stephan A. Thernstrom, instructor is Government. The text, it reports, was not written by all 70 signers, but by four "young thinkers:" Thernstrom, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government, and Robert P. Wolff '54, instructor in Philosophy...