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...Photographer Dmitri Kessel worked eight days to get one picture in authentic color of Tintoretto's The Annunciation in Venice's School of San Rocco. One of his biggest problems was to keep both his camera and the 166-in. -by-214 ½-inch framed painting, which had been on the wall for almost 400 years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture...
Astronomer Hiltner found a physicist's solution to the problem. At the university's Yerkes Observatory, he installed an aluminum shield, only four-millionths of an inch thick, between the photocathode and the photographic plate. The fast electrons passed right through the shield like light through a window; the foil prevented the water molecules from destroying the vulnerable cesium, hence the light booster could operate indefinitely...
...defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...
...others to the 10,000-ft. level, but at that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...
...Hard Sell. In Waco, Texas, less than two weeks after the Clifton-Simpson, Inc. furniture store advertised a "Sink or Sell'' sale, a two-inch downpour caved in the roof, did some $50,000 damage...