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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger. More installments in the life of the solemn little Glass menagerie may delight younger readers, but may prove a bit wearing for older ones...
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger. More installments in the life of the solemn little Glass menagerie may delight younger readers but may prove a bit wearing for older ones...
...Engineer Ray Radus taught them a new trick. Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that a small lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through the coil for a fraction...
Clough had called him. said Taylor, to ask "if he would be way off beam in suggesting that the two things-Vassall and the trawlers-might be connected. I said that we honestly did not know, but if he put it like that it was a conceivable possibility-it might be a fair inference to draw, but we really could not say with certainty, or based on facts.'' On this dubious ground, Clough built his story...
RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS, AND SEYMOUR, AN INTRODUCTION (248 pp.)-J. D. Sallnqer-Little, Brown...