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Earthbound doctors, noting its blue glass panels, have dubbed it "the cyanotic silo." Arranged in a basically circular pattern (see diagram), the ground floor is used for a blood bank. The second floor is for heart surgery, but the actual operating rooms occupy only two spaces shaped like generous slices of a pie. The third floor has masses of equipment for recording the research doctors' data, and glass observation domes for looking down into the heart operating rooms...
...Mountain Park, an untouched 11,300 acres, nearly half the size of Paris, within the city limits of Los Angeles, Pereira's design would relegate the automobile to a circular rim-road linking ten villages that cling like jewels to the slopes. To keep even this traffic to a minimum, he suggests monorail and funicular transportation and several heliports for quick, easy access to other parts of the city. Within the villages themselves, everything would be so cozily clustered that the common way of going shopping, or to school, or to sports, or to work (in the light industries...
...soared up into space last week from Cape Canaveral. Instead of going into orbit not far above the earth, like famed Telstar I, it kept on climbing and climbing. When it touched an altitude of some 22,500 miles, a small rocket fired and pushed it into an almost circular orbit...
...Monster-an "octopus" crossed with Lord-knows-what by some madman, and just the ticket to produce four-way stomach upset. Six Flags, near Dallas, has the Aserradero (Spanish for sawmill), with a water flume ride that puts four passengers into a hollow log, runs them under a circular saw, shoots them along a rapids, finally abandons them to the simple trauma of a steep downhill sluicing...
...afford to experiment in heliborne assault tactics, are providing the Army with invaluable operational experience in new doctrines of guerrilla warfare. "We're writing the book of tactics ourselves," says Major Ivan Slavich, 35, commanding officer of the U.T.T. Company. In combat, the Hueys usually fly a circular "daisy chain" pattern so that each ship is always covered by the chopper immediately behind it. "Our machine guns have more actual killing power," says Slavich. "But our rockets seem to have a much greater psychological effect on the Viet Cong...