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...high). With MLS, arriving aircraft can enter from several directions at different speeds, flying various curved approaches toward separate electronic "gates." MLS will thus permit more efficient use of runways by different types of aircraft and will give controllers greater choice in routing planes away from built-up areas. And because it operates at higher frequency, it is less influenced by buildings and local geography...
...been Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant to George Farkas, the chief executive. In 1950 he switched...
...geometric as the Pop references vanished. A 1966 work entitled A Whole Year, Half a Day, which contained a set of twelve rectangles with increasingly large diagonal "bites" taken out of them, marked Smith's growing interest in the canvas as membrane-a surface stretching topographically over a built-up support, giving a suave play of shadow in the folds. "I think of the curves from the canvas as somehow fleshy, body-like," he says. But they could also suggest landscape, as Riverfall (1969) showed: an undulating expanse, 22 ft. wide, sprayed and delicately washed with green, evoking...
Feasible Alternatives. Another provision of the Highway Act has even more serious implications. San Antonio, Texas, has long yearned for a new 9.7-mile highway link between Interstate 34 and Interstate Loop 410. Engineers have routed the asphalt swath right through some of the city's least built-up land, which unfortunately includes about 250 acres of the heavily used Brackenridge and Olmos Basin public parks. Aroused local conservationists, while arguing unsuccessfully for another, more expensive route for the road, successfully stymied the project in court. For one thing, the proposed road violates the Transportation Act, which bans federally...
...very characteristic that sometimes annoys experimental physicists: their ability to penetrate barriers. Radio waves-especially the increasingly popular microwaves, which require line-of-sight transmission between relay towers-are essentially blocked by buildings, hills and other obstructions. Thus the ghostly muons could be highly useful in heavily built-up metropolitan areas, where they would easily reach into the interior of metal skyscrapers and even deep into subway tunnels. What is more, since muons travel in a relatively narrow beam, they could be aimed with precision. Says Arnold: "You wouldn't have to worry about sending signals where you didn...