Word: three
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong, the newly formed Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers (for the U.S.A.) Assoc., fearful of U.S. tariffs against their ever increasing garment exports, set up a voluntary three-year quota system for shipments of cotton goods to the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 14). With the blessing of the colony's government, the new restrictions limit 1960 exports to the U.S. to the 1959 figures plus a 15% increase; in each of the next two years, there would be an additional 10% increase...
...Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off an experimental three-dimensional television set at the Home Furnishings Show in Chicago. Two TV cameras take separate pictures of the same scene, focus them on the screen at the same time. Viewer, by wearing special 3-D eye glasses, sees only one scene with his left eye, the other scene with his right eye -thus gets 3-D effect...
...observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time on a wide and sullen river during a hunt for crocodiles. The searchlight's beam picks up the two glowing, red eyes of a crocodile on the river bank. From a distance of three yards the hunter fires and the crocodile's head explodes. The still twitching saurian is hauled aboard, and one of Nadine Gordimer's hearty women, a guest on the expedition, gives tongue. "Oh, my God!" she cries. "Wasn't that wonderful? Did you ever see anything like...
Menna Gallic's brief and beautifully written first novel of the Welsh coal fields is the sort of book that bestselling authors should be required to copy two or three times in longhand. The language has a strong, sly wit, and the story-of a troubled, strikebound village-is told with force and skill. Welsh-born Novelist Gallie is able to give her sympathy to the strikers without the posturing of protest literature, and to evoke the gamy folk flavor of her villagers without being cute or condescending...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). The Unknown World is the planet Venus, explored in this second segment of a three-part series on astronomy. Guest commentator: John Streeter of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute...