Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clear Vision...
...Great Wall (TIME, Dec. 21) beat Todd's picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell-O-Vision" (which supplies every customer with his very own scent vent...
...olfactions" themselves - supplied from the "library of essences" compiled by "Osmologist" Hans Laube, who perfected the Smell-O-Vision process - are on the whole no more accurate or credible than those employed by AromaRama, but at least they don't stink so loud. Moreover, the gimmick is backed up by a witty script that at times owes as much to Don Miguel de Cervantes as it does to Scriptwriter William Roos. The Todd 70 Process camera is used to flashy effect, especially when it is mounted on a helicopter. And Hero Elliott is a remarkably sly and appealing comedian...
Later, in Manhattan, attacking the Administration, Jack Kennedy looked over the land, overlooked prosperity, and seemed to see a U.S. shrunk even from the Khrushchev vision ("a limping horse"-see FOREIGN NEWS). "Seven million have an income of less than $2,000," he proclaimed to the New York politicos. "There are 15 million on a substandard diet; 17 million are not covered even by the $1 minimum wage. We have more than 3,000,000 unemployed workers with jobless benefits averaging less than $31 a week." In Fresno, Humphrey took up the same theme: "We cannot, in good conscience, enjoy...
...attempts to bore through 500 ft. of earth and limestone in search of the men, "all hope" had been abandoned. But wives of three of the white miners begged for one more rescue attempt. A self-styled seer, Petrus Johannes Kleinhans, 29, had told them that he had a vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said it was 1,100 ft. away from the nearest tunnel. Seer Kleinhans then...