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...doctor. In a woman, the gonococci may spread and hide, or mingle with other germs to make diagnosis extremely difficult. In the new detection method described by Dr. Brown, the gonococci are made fluorescent and visible through a microscope under ultraviolet light only a few minutes after a smear is taken from a patient. Hospitals across the U.S. are now testing the test, and by the end of the year it should be ready for general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: The Trouble with Gonorrhea | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/7/1963 | See Source »

...these things correctly involves an enormous amount of optical, mechanical and electronic complication. Durino-low-level runs, the ground below sweeps past so fast that its image would smear on a stationary film, even during an exposure of one-thousandth of a second. A small computing device called an intervalometer must note the airplane's speed and altitude and figure out how fast the film must move to keep exact pace with the ground. Just before the shutter opens a vacuum sucks the film against a perforated plate that starts moving at the necessary speed. After the shutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reconnaissance: Cameras Aloft: No Secrets Below | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Connoisseur Speaks | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

...that Brown was soft on Communism was ridiculous. Sensing defeat, Nixon flailed out in a last-minute fury. On election eve, he appeared on television-with his wife and two teen-age daughters at his side-claimed in persecuted tones that he had been the victim of the worst smear cam paign in California history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: California: Career's End | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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