Word: stripes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once having attained this blissful state, you can relax and enjoy some spectacular photography of the traditional Technicolor Western stripe and a couple of excellent individual sequences. Particularly impressive is a night cattle stampede which achieves some terrifying effects by the simple expedient of letting the cattle charge the cameraman...
Soundstripe. Bell & Howell Co., maker of movie cameras, has developed a comparatively cheap and simple method of giving a voice to home movies. The conventional "optical" sound track on the edge of the film is replaced by a "sound-stripe" of magnetic material, as in a tape recorder. When used in the home, the film will catch baby's first coos and gurgles as well as his early toddlings. The sound can be erased and changed for each showing of the film. A salesman exhibiting his company's product can adapt his canned spiel to fit the weak...
Students in the University who are majoring in dentistry may soon had themselves earning a stripe for each 2,000 cavities they fill. The Defense Department yesterday announced the first call for dentists since the outbreak of the Korean...
Burchett said that although Dean had been very sick, he was in good health last week and had regained all but ten pounds of his normal weight. He was living in a two-room underground apartment at the prison camp, wearing a neat pin-stripe suit, playing Korean chess with his guard. General Dean still did not know that he had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first to be won in Korea...
Even if Adams had done none of these things, one other achievement would stamp him with the stripe of genius: his wonderful letters. To those who automatically pigeonhole Adams as a crotchety Cassandra, Biographer-Critic Newton Arvin's springy sampling of the voluminous correspondence will come as an eye opener. Tart as alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with sensuous responses to life as scandalous in a proper Bostonian as living on capital...