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...Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger...
...laboratory, but warheads plunging down from space hardly can be expected to carry lenses to expedite their own destruction. To fuse a steel casing weighing 100 Ibs. would require a laser light strong enough to deliver 807 kilowatts of energy to it for a full minute. If the beam were to hit the warhead 30 miles above the earth, it would be spread out so much that only 0.5% of its energy would be effective. Thus the power of the whole beam-even without allowing for dimming as it passes through the atmosphere-would have to be 161,400 kilowatts...
...seemed to care-until South African companies searching for new consumer markets discovered an impressive fact: Bantus make up a market of 11,000,000 people with an annual purchasing power of $1.26 billion. Staggered by the potential of this "new" market, South African businessmen are now scrambling to beam their goods and advertising at the Bantu. One of the most important men on the beam is himself a Bantu, a Natal University psychology graduate named Nimrod Mkele, 42, who has become South Africa's leading expert on the Bantu market...
FICTION 1. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (1, last week) 2. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction, Salinger (2) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (3) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (8) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna...
...Cocoon. A beam whose upper half had been partially cut away reminded Marisol of the Mona Lisa: as she examined the grain of the cutaway part, she thought she saw the famous smile. She painted in the face, guided by the grain, and added a pair of plaster hands around the middle of the beam. The result looks as if the Mona Lisa were about to emerge from some sort of wooden cocoon...