Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Present-day spy planes, with their elaborate electronic gadgetry, come in two main varieties. The more glamorous type is the fast, sleek jet that darts through another country's airspace to photograph anything of military interest, from missile installations to arms depots. Best known is the subsonic U2, which precipitated a major cold-war crisis when the Soviet Union shot down one piloted by Francis Gary Powers in 1960. Its replacement is the SR-71, the 2,000-m.p.h. Blackbird, which is probably the world's fastest airplane in sustained flight (TIME, April...
...black paint. Travelers have caught tantalizing glimpses of the mysterious jet at Thailand's Udorn airbase, from which it has flown over Red China and North Viet Nam; there has been talk of speed "faster than a bullet" and a ceiling of 100,000 ft. An occasional unrevealing photograph has been declassified by cautious military censors. But only recently have any more significant details of the "Blackbird's" equipment, performance and capabilities been released. They strongly suggest that the SR-71 is-both literally and figuratively-the world's hottest aircraft...
...some extent, fashion publications and advertising agencies are using blacks because of the temper of the times. But photographers have more professional reasons for insisting that black is beautiful. "Negroes photograph better against white," explains Bert Stern-and most pure fashion photography is white-backgrounded to show off the clothes. Milton Greene, famed for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, adds: "Black models are more willing and able to put out for the camera...
...composer: his Classical Gas won a Grammy award last month as the outstanding pop tune of 1968, and his Cinderella-Rockefella was one of the year's hottest international hits (1,500,000 sales overseas alone). He is an accomplished guitarist and a pop artist whose life-sized photograph of a Greyhound bus is in the collection of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. He is, most recently, an author whose new anthology of verse and musings, The Mason Williams Reading Matter (Doubleday; $2.95), has present sales...
...tends to be remote with her costars. Making 100 Rifles, she was so distant that Jim Brown stopped talking to her altogether. When he wanted to communicate with Raquel, he did so through her husband-even when it came to passing the salt. When a publicity photograph called for a seminude clinch, Raquel called for a towel to insert in the chest-to-chest confrontation...