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...been queried by the Admiralty, advised against letting the Nautilus go up the Thames (Greater London pop. 8,300,000) on the reasoning applied "to the siting of land-based reactors, namely, that until we have gained some years of practical experience it would be prudent to avoid heavily built-up areas...
...original play, La Tosca, by Yictorien Sardou, it was Rome's Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, an edifice still set amid open spaces through which the revolutionary Angelotti could have escaped; in the opera, Puccini's church (Sant' Andrea della Valle) is in a thickly built-up part of Rome, where the escape seems less likely. So far, nobody has found an answer to this...
...trademark of the whole metal sculpture school, its practitioners agree, is "openness." Unlike the built-up masses of modeled sculpture or the chiseled-down solids of stone and wood, metal sculpture uses materials that give maximum strength with a maximum sense of space...
...towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property that had never been taxed. But even if the assessors were working at maximum efficiency, the school districts would still be in trouble. About 27% of them have reached the legal tax-rate limit, and almost a third of them have issued all the bonds the law allows...
Night Prayer. Colonel Shoup changed the take-off pattern so that jets turned away from built-up areas, schools and nearby mink ranche, (mother minks frightened by noise stop breeding). He invited community leaders to his base, briefed them on Soviet striking forces and on his defense mission, showed them a jet scramble. He notified the public of extra flight activities, spoke at civic clubs, showed groups around the base. Soon, Madison changed its mind about the Air Force. Said one elderly resident, formerly quick to complain when awakened at night by the banshee shriek of a scrambling...