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...waves that bounce off the car, change frequency and are picked up by the receiving antenna. The difference between the two frequencies tells the speed accurately (within 2 m.p.h.). (In a group of cars, the meter picks out the one that is going fastest.) At the same time, a graphic recorder sets down the speed over a distance of 150 feet in red ink. The operating officers telephone a description of the speeding car to a highway patrol station just ahead, and the trap is sprung...
...audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around a conference table, in the obstructionism of the Russian Delegate and the neutrality of the Delegate from Pakistan, the authors have not translated this interest into dramatic terms. The committee scenes are graphic as a documentary, but very dull theatre...
...picture does not reduce Luther to a stock hero, or make his break from the Church into a simple tale of right and wrong. It follows Luther through the days of his early doubt about the right of his religion, tracing his compelling feeling of sin with graphic scenes of self-scourging and confession to the Vicar General of his monastic order. Then, without being pedantic, Luther expounds his theories of salvation through faith, and of a popular interpretation of Scripture...
...cover the Civil War ("A spirit in my feet said go, and I went"). His quiet war pictures did not bring the spectator to the midst of battle, as recent war photos have, but they made a deep, clear, unforgettable record.* In 1880 the New York Daily Graphic ran a shot of "Shantytown" (the squatters' nest that later became the fashionable Upper East Side), in halftone reproduction. News photography soon became a profession, and men who learned to seize the exact moment when events show dramatically clear often made great pictures. Muckraking Journalist Jacob A. Riis stirred...
...Public Library." (Actually, the papers were financed from a private endowment.) The article told how Communists could lure children to the papers and fill their ears with translated propaganda. This story was part of the Post's effort to remove Russian-language newspapers from the Boston Public Library. So graphic was the story that the trustees of the library resolved to make sure their staff kept a close watch on readers, "alert," according to the resolution, "for possible Red agents using the reading room to spread their doctrines...