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Fiber optics might even be applied to code work. If a quarter of a million fibers are woven at random into a bundle so that its two ends are not identical, the image which passes in one end will be hopelessly scrambled when it emerges. The only way to unscramble it is to feed it back the way it came through an identical bundle. Since it is possible to produce two identical random bundles by winding the fibers on a drum and cutting the coil in half, the receiver could be equipped with a "decoding" bundle. Linked into a television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picture Tube | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...with seven strings to the inch. With the tension of the loom eased, everything then unfolded, and he began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: The Mystic Art of Persian Rugs | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

...million inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York City alone has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel, more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. From the tangled threads of the state's 75 national and racial groups is woven the most intricate political tapestry in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Threads of Power | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...visitors perch quietly on steel folding chairs on the vast graveled terrace, listening to the piquant yet noble strains of an orchestral prelude, the work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France is assembled; not only the court, but also Racine, Boileau, Molière [and] ambassadors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stones Set to Music | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Just before Sarnoff took over as president. NBC had no TV shows in the top ten Trendex ratings, while CBS had nine. Sarnoff was determined to cut away at the TV fabric Weaver had woven, go after more so-called "bread-and-butter" programs. This month NBC has only two (sixth place and a tie for tenth) shows in the top ten. But TV ratings aside, rival network officials concede that Bob Sarnoff is a better administrator than Weaver, who had a penchant for endless interoffice memos. During Sarnoff's first six months in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Wide, Wide Shake-Up | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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