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...blowing and shaping begins. For Ernst's tall, reddish-brown Poet, topped by a sharp-beaked head with a hole for an eye, the glassworker at some stages had the equivalent of a 100-lb. weight at the end of his long metal blowpipe. Le Corbusier's amber Bucrane went through 26 failures, costing about 3,000,000 lire ($5,000) in workers' wages and shattered glass. As for André Verdet's Red Character, Costantini spent three years simply studying the project...
Last Saturday afternoon--one of this spring's sunniest and warmest--we made an abortive attempt to gain access to the balcony. On emerging from the elevator we found ourselves restricted to a plush receiving-room, walled on the view side with thick amber glass. On inquiring, we descovered that students can see the balcony only by joining the Crimson Key tours that are allowed to take people on Sunday afternoons. (It seems ironic that prospective freshmen are enticed to come to Harvard by a view that they'll never see as Harvardmen...
...Amber Light. At the end of six months, the overwhelming majority (73%) gallantly felt that they could learn to live with eight booms a day. But one out of every four felt that he could not. Still, when those who were uncertain about the advisability of supersonic planes were reminded that the French, British and Russians were already working on them, eight out of ten patriotically agreed that the U.S. should proceed with...
...booms daily, and they will not be spared at night. It may some day be possible to design supersonic aircraft so that their booms will be less annoying and damaging, but this is by no means certain. The Federal Aviation Agency summed up by urging more study-an amber rather than a green light to the supersonic...
This is Kathleen Winsor's first major production since Forever Amber, and it is crowded with oversexed protagonists whose affairs would have put Amber to shame-or rather to virtue. It rides the trend to "authentic" westerns and is an authentic eastern as well. It has been grabbed up by two book clubs and by Hollywood. The funny | thing is, it's really...