Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such young people are Robert Hall, a 20-year-old Seattle Negro whose skin is so black it is bluish, and his strawberry blonde fiancée Nancy Mitton, also 20. Inseparable since grade school, both were honor students in high school and won scholarships to Western Washington State College. There, both have become campus leaders-and Hall, who intends to become a chemical engineer, finished the school's four-year chemistry curriculum before the end of his sophomore year. The couple plan to be married in September, then enter the University of Washington to begin their junior year...
...some people. A girl who knows a white man can get to know him very well-and it gets boring. She finds the prospect of a Negro man exciting." There is no denying that for many girls, interracial dating is a very stimulating prospect. "I just think brown skin looks healthier," insists one California student. "Negro boys are carried away with pretty white faces and long flashy hair," snaps an admittedly jealous black high school girl in Washington, D.C. On some campuses with a high ratio of Negro athletes, mixed dating is inevitable. "There just weren't any spook...
...deeper deterrent too. Many Negro girls say they are still haunted by the image of the white "massa" coming down the hill to take his pick of slave women. Observes Nancy Lou Smith, a svelte 24-year-old Manhattan career girl from Texas: "For many white males, my skin is still a badge that identifies me as a sexual plaything...
...beams pass through transparent substances but are absorbed by darker, opaque materials. Thus they flash harmlessly through the cornea and lens of the eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes in the retina to ease the pressure of glaucoma. They also penetrate translucent skin to vaporize skin cancers, or tattoos that out-live the patient's enthusiasm for such decoration. Lasers are being used in data pro- cessing to heat tiny, closely spaced spots on magnetic film, thus altering the magnetization and increasing the bits of information that can be packed into...
...Burnett's Creative Research Workshop uses the "galvanic skin-response test," which measures the perspiration level and thus interest of volunteers through electrodes clamped to their hands. Another device is the "pupillary-response camera." It records the dilations of the viewer's pupils as he watches a test commercial. If the subject likes what he sees, his pupils widen; if not, he can catch a little nap time...