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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spiraling Cost. Approached by a giant horseshoe driveway bordered by artificial ponds, the mansion glistens by day with $1,000,000 worth of solar screens intended to reflect the sunlight and reduce heat, and by night is an explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost...
Bucky sees no reason why mankind should not utilize "the three-quarters of the world that is water." He has projected service stations anchored to the sea bottom for submarines to nestle up to. "It is well known that below 40 feet, turbulence is manageable." he says. He proposes that the automobile may be the next fossil. "We will put little jet wings on our backs and fly out the window on high-frequency beams." Divining that the compression and tension factors can be separated in any structure, he has designed a "tensegrity mast" that seems to be held...
...trim six-footer (most top surfers are short) who has been at it since he was seven, Cabell keeps in shape during the winter by skiing on snow. The two, he says, are a lot alike: "You go as deep into the hook as possible, swinging to the bottom of the wave, then to the top, then back down again-and shoot through for a long, long ride. The idea is to rock the board back and forth with your feet, just like you do with a pair of skis-then break out of the tube at the last minute...
...pilot's wings and captain's stripes on the wall. The act was symbolic; only a few days later, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker retired after 26 years as Eastern president, and later chairman, leaving Hall in complete command. Hall, 47, is already reshaping Eastern from top to bottom, stressing detailed economic planning, improved cabin service, and a hard sell to win more passengers. Though the line has lost $41.5 million in the past four years, former Pilot Hall has impressive experience in pulling out of nose dives. As TWA's general manager, he played a key role...
...Justice Department, which moved quickly in the fear that DeAngelis might try to skip the country, is not alone in its desire to get to the bottom of DeAngelis' tangled affairs. Senator John L. McClellan, who never minds working in the glare of headlines, has launched a "quiet study" to see whether his investigative committee should look in. Convinced that any new controls by Washington would smother trading, the nation's commodity exchanges have set up committees to stiffen margin requirements and trading rules. Nonetheless, other indictments are expected to follow the one handed down last week...