Word: slides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young Men, bohemian sex. While Author Wilson unfolds a kind of serial on the theme of "Which Weeds Will the Widow Wear?" he also presents a series of sharp, lantern-slide portraits of modern England...
...General, watch yourself," warned Guatemala's Vice President, Clemente Marroquin Rojas, in his newspaper La Hora. "You may slide downhill." He was addressing General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 63, Guatemala's headstrong President, who was treating the country to a double dose of wacky crises. Six weeks ago, to protect native Guatemalan shrimp from poaching by foreign trawlers, Ydígoras sent out P-51s on a strafing run that killed three Mexican fishermen (TIME, Jan. 19) and caused a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Last week Ydígoras brought on a school...
...Jordan Belson, 32, in charge of visual effects; TV Producer Henry Jacobs, 34, who handles the sound. Working together, the two present "esthetically gratifying audio-visual experiences probably related to basic instincts in the fear of loud noise and the fear of falling." Belson's equipment includes standard slide projectors, rotating prisms, a series of slotted globes, a strobo-scopic flicker machine that has the effect, at 15 flashes per second, of inducing the shakes in some viewers (Belson keeps his flicker to a safe eight flashes per second). Jacobs controls the sound from a console that is hooked...
Other industries also found signs of increasing sales. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association predicted a reversal in the three-year slide in appliances, expects '59 sales to be 4% greater than '58. The New York Stock Exchange reflected the optimism; the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed to 572.73, within .44 of its alltime high...
...tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with the caustic godfather of the atomic sub. The Rickover Takeover was part of Navy lore, including such props as a chair with shortened front legs, designed to slide an interviewee forward in disease while a deftly flicked Venetian blind let in eye-dazzling bursts...