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...obviously, boundless energy, meshed-gear precision, dramatic flair, sheer physical virtuosity. In superbly mounted national folk dances and "popular ballets" (original works on contemporary Russian themes), the men soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them in the air as if frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black-cloaked dancers gliding in roller-smooth imitation of horsemen...
...Smaller Strobe Light. The first self-contained electronic photoflash unit was introduced by Minneapolis-Honeywell's Heiland division. Instead of the usual bulky power unit dangling from a photographer's shoulder, the 35-oz. "Futuramic Strobonar" attaches to any camera equipped with speedlight synchronization. is powered by three size D batteries or ordinary household current. Price...
...another photographer to the courthouse to cover his captive photographer. By the time they got there, Milledge had cooled off enough to release the captives. He was just coming out of his chambers when newly arrived Herald Photographer Steve Wever, 41, caught the judge twice in blinks of his strobe light...
Photographer Wever, who stands 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 115 Ibs., was all but smothered in the arms of the law. Bailiff Charles Michel rushed him head on. while the judge himself grabbed him around the neck from behind. Before they sent his camera and strobe unit crashing to the floor, Miami Daily News Photographer Charles Trainor leaped out of a phone booth in time to get the shot (see cut] that best pictured the law taking things into its own hands...
...Snap & a Taillight. The baling-wire-and-razor experiments are part of a do-it-yourself program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water...