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...England." But damn it, blood is thicker than water, and he has had a change of heart, possibly because of overexposure to what he calls "the forward-looking common supermarket jargon and high-minded greed." Said Osborne: "I, for one, am sick to death of all its ugly chromium pretense and am proud to settle for a modest, shabby, poor-but-proud LITTLE ENGLAND...
...Radiation Expert Dr. Ernest C. Anderson reported that the object has the same sort of radioactivity that is shown by natural iron meteorites. Cosmic rays from distant space have turned some of its iron atoms to unstable manganese 54, which gives off radiation while it is decaying to stable chromium 54. This is good proof that the object was part of a spacecraft that had orbited for a long time above the atmosphere, which stops most cosmic rays. The piece that fell on Manitowoc, Wis., probably came from the breakup of Sputnik IV, the five-ton Russian satellite that...
...come from Bell Laboratories. The principle of atoms being raised to excited states by absorption of radiation, and subsequently being stimulated by radiation to give out their stored energy, has been known in science for a very long time. The maser consists of a synthetic ruby crystal containing chromium ions which can absorb and store light in excited states of the chromium atoms. After a time the stored energy is emitted in a powerful short flash, which in some cases has reached the, equivalent of 1,000 kilowatts in intensity. Already this has been used to illuminate an area...
...Even in the chauffeurs' waiting room, champagne flowed. Mr. Bagby's Musical Mornings were scheduled in the ballroom (Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, et al.). Thus, 30 years ago, the new Waldorf-Astoria opened on Manhattan's Park Avenue, setting a tone of stately, if slightly too chromium-plated, elegance that lasted nearly into the days of Hiltonization. This week, for the first time since the Waldorf debut, a new hotel opened in Manhattan, but the atmosphere was different...
...radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact. Now again, reaction...