Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OTHELLO. As Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, Laurence Olivier makes this filmed stage production a spectacular display of virtuosity, though he spends so much of his talent impersonating a Negro that the characterization often seems skin-deep...
City & Country. Doctors manned 36 clinics, mostly in schools. In the larger centers, they were armed with high-pressure air guns to squirt a dose of vaccine through the skin of a child's arm so fast that he could hardly feel it. Smaller centers used conventional hypodermic needles. The vaccine, Pitman-Moore's attenuated, live-virus form (TIME, Feb. 19), was free, but parents, who were asked to drop a token quarter into a donation box, contributed $8,256.68, or 26? a shot...
Hanging by a Ribbon. Carl L. Larsen, just out of the Navy, was trying out his powerful new motorcycle that summer day in 1962 when he lost control and rammed a driveway culvert. His severed right foot hung by a ribbon of skin and other tissues; its two major arteries had been cut. By the time he was carried to Oakland's Highland Hospital, his bloodless leg was a deathly white, mottled with blue. Amputation seemed unavoidable. But Larsen was a young giant (then 22) in top physical condition, and a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Walter...
...moon an hour after the first flare sighting. The lethal rain would become increasingly strong, reaching a maximum about six hours later. Long before that maximum, though, if all went well, the astronauts would have blasted off in their LEM to rendezvous and found safety within the protective skin of the orbiting Apollo...
Pantherlike, vain and arrogant, Othello first appears sniffing a rose. His skin is dark as charcoal, his bass-toned speech richly thickened in a kind of classic calypso rhythm. Rolling his r's and his hips, he swaggers into an epic drama of a husband's jealousy reinforced as the story of a black man married to a white woman...