Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...
...melodrama of this sort, Gabin's realistic touches provide an ironic contrast to Pepe's fanciful vision of freedom. The depraved gangster, trapped by both police and conscience, is forced to hide in the friendly surroundings of the native quarter. Ultimately his love for freedom and for the jeweled Gaby draws him from the safety of the Casbah to the dangers of the city. But even Pepe's love is evil, for Gaby is the mistress of another man. Gabin plays the part frankly and sadistically, yet he ended on a note of pathos, emotional enough for melodrama, and ironic...
...pattern did not include the most revolutionary novelty; nuclear propulsion. It was still untried; indeed, it seemed far in the future, and the peacetime promotion system did not favor the quick rise of brilliant men with vision enough to prepare for the battles of the distant future...
Villainous Battery. Rickover had a vision. At Oak Ridge, he and his little command of four eager young officers painfully fought their way through mathematical entanglements to the strongholds where dwelt the atom. They came to the conclusion that the Navy, to remain a vital fighting force, must have nuclear propulsion, and that the logical place to apply it first was in submarines...
...Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn. President Truman presided over the ceremonies, along with the Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the chairman of the AEC. Captain Rickover, in civilian clothes even for this occasion, kept in the background, but his work and vision had not gone unappreciated. Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball awarded him the Legion of Merit for what he called "the most important piece of development work in the history of the Navy...