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...Romualdez, was crunching watermelon seeds as she listened to Marcos orate in the House. When Marcos finished, he went up to the erstwhile Miss Manila (a proudly packaged 36-23-35) and asked: "Would you mind standing up, please?" Back to back, Marcos determined that Imelda was an inch shorter than his 5 ft. 7 in., then turned to an onlooker and said: "Fine. I'm getting married." Eleven days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A New Voice in Asia | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

HITCHCOCK: First of all, we have to explain the perspective of various lenses. In other words, when you look through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: ALFRED HITCHCOCK AT HARVARD | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...normal speed, it would happen so flashily that you'd never really realize what was happening; you wouldn't get the full benefit of it. Now for when the horse rears up, we built a low wall -- I think it was only 9 inches from the ground, and then we skimmed the ground with the camera, just leaving the grass out of the picture, and then we got a horse just to roll over. It was a trick horse that loved to roll. So all it was doing was rolling over a 9-inch bit of brick wall, that...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: ALFRED HITCHCOCK AT HARVARD | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Just an Inch...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Jumbo Footballers Nip Freshmen; Harvard Stopped Inch From Goal | 10/8/1966 | See Source »

...caught it on the one yard-line. Hurley had only one man between him and victory -- Tufts linebacker Mark Haseltine. Hurley stopped. He tried to fake out Haseltine by shifting right. Then he dove left and Haseltine halted him. Hurley's out-stretched arms held the ball only an inch short of the chalkline...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Jumbo Footballers Nip Freshmen; Harvard Stopped Inch From Goal | 10/8/1966 | See Source »

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