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...such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to a meeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point-the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach-and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader of the advertisement might write in for a "Handsome Zapata poster...
Dougherty, who claims to have had a "great response from staunch conservatives," will not reveal his politics. His cause, however, cannot have been hurt by the appearance last week of a Spiro Agnew watch on the wrist of Mrs. Ethel Kennedy. "I asked her what the watch did," reported Senator Ted Kennedy, "and she told me, 'You wind it up, and it criticizes your brother...
Part of the Juju. The latest version of the copper bracelet fad began in Britain during the early '60s and quickly spread to the Continent. In both London and Paris, the green-stained wrist has become a mark of distinction. Among the wearers are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Snowdon, the Marquess of Bath (who thoughtfully sells the bracelets to sightseers at a souvenir stand outside his castle), Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects...
Predictably enough, the green wrist cult has developed its own rules. The bracelet must be closely fitted, for instance, and its ends must not come into contact with each other. Once clamped on, it must not be removed-not even for bathing. "One must never clean them off," says Movie Director Herbert Ross. "They clean themselves off, although it is O.K. to wash the green and black off your wrist." After about two years, the makers wisely claim, the bracelets lose their power and must be replaced-a sort of magical planned obsolescence...