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...public's interest in photography has always leaped highest whenever new cameras, making picture-taking even simpler and more reliable, have reached the market. This year, for the first time in nearly a decade, cameras and films for amateurs are undergoing a revolutionary change. The new American cameras are not only easy to operate but, more important, easy to carry. They are so compact, compared with their predecessors, that they can be toted in pocket or purse, more like a wallet or a pack of cigarettes than a piece of hand luggage. The era of pocket photography is here...
...implications of their findings could be even more far-reaching. Organisms capable of photosynthesis probably evolved from still simpler forms of life. Thus if tiny plants that used the complex process of photosynthesis were alive at least 3.3 billion years ago, their more rudimentary ancestors, the earth's earliest living things, must be considerably older...
...dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose as prosaic. At the end, Snow's hero decides to get married and bore from within society. With typical felicity, he concludes: "Some feelings were simpler, compulsorily simpler, than until inside them one would ever think." Heavy...
...with ready-to-tear clothing. Next fall's fashions, at least the more expensive lines, are promised to be sturdier and less complicated than present offerings, with soft fabrics and classic lines predominating. "The gag thing is over," says Designer Chester Weinberg. "Now clothes are going to become simpler." Until stores can be stocked with these Utopian raiments, women will have to follow the advice of Bonwit's Helen Galland: "People should look closely. It is very obvious what is well made and what is not." Or a woman could simply give in to the natural impulse...
More controversial was the report of Dr. M. Vera Peters, of Toronto's Princess Margaret Rose Hospital, on simpler surgery for early breast cancer. Dr. Peters told a meeting at the Indiana School of Medicine that doctors should attempt the most conservative procedures possible "in order to preserve the patient's morale." Thus, for certain of her patients in whom early diagnosis has been made, she favors "lumpectomy," the removal of the cancer alone rather than the entire breast. She claims that the operation, which is followed by radiation therapy, offers selected patients essentially the same survival rate...