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...committee of prominent Russian artists and writers has already protested that the "senseless dissonance" of a modern hotel would ruin the "harmonious Kremlin ensemble." But the traditionalists have been put to rout by the erection inside the Kremlin itself of a vast meeting hall in the glass-and-chromium tradition of the U.N. itself...
...heart of the Bell optical maser is a rod of synthetic ruby ½ in. in diameter and 1½ in. long. It is chiefly aluminum oxide, but atoms of chromium replace a small amount of the aluminum, and these atoms cause the maser action...
...spiral flash tube rather like the tube of a photographer's strobe lamp. When a pulse of electricity passes through the tube, it gives a powerful burst of white (mixed) light, some of which strikes into the ruby rod. Certain wave lengths are absorbed by the chromium atoms, raising them momentarily to very high energy levels. They drop back down almost immediately, but instead of falling all the way, they accumulate at a level that still contains considerable energy. After the light flash has shone on the ruby rod for a few millionths of a second, a large number...
Then a sort of chain reaction happens. A few atoms drop spontaneously to the lowest energy level, emitting photons (units) of deep red light. The photons hit other chromium atoms, knocking them off their energy shelf and making them emit more photons of red light. The photons that move sideways escape from the rod, but a few of them hit its polished ends, which the scientists have covered with a thin film of silver that reflects nearly all of them back into the rod. This reflected light moves lengthwise between the two end mirrors, traversing .all of the ruby...
...charm, the shaggy, Chablis-tinted hair over soft, wide-set eyes, and the generous mouth that twists with Gallic wit as the words come tumbling out, all add up to a sultry but utterly unphony femininity that makes her, at 39, far sexier than most of Hollywood's chromium-plated babes. She describes her own quality perfectly as she discusses Room at the Top, in which she brought calm skill and warm, intimate understanding to the role of an unhappily married woman engaged in a last and lonely affair. "It sustained both sexes," says she. "It was very reassuring...