Word: circularity
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Even Odds. As it happens, October is also the month when the U.S. is scheduled to begin modernizing its 550 land-based Minuteman III missiles. An improved guidance system will be installed in the final stage of the missile. The system will double the accuracy, or halve the "circular error probability," of each of the 1,650 Minuteman warheads. The current version has a fifty-fifty chance of falling within 1,200 ft. of its target; the new model would be even odds to land within 600 ft. (see diagram...
...paths, that is, except the circular one of giving in to domination. This is a route well traveled by the prostitute, and Lynee Gore's portrayal manages to suggest the personal degradation that accompanies her submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect...
...stainless-steel and glass structure lie two inner courtyards, paneled in striking blond oak and covered by plexidome skylights. The galleries are built around the courts, with internal windows that open onto them. Sunlight streams in everywhere. The details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house. As President Brewster observes, "It's rather remarkable that such a building could give you such a low-key, domesticated feeling...
...Cambridge Superior Court House, with its louvered windows, circular court rooms and 21 stories of tinted security glass, textured feroconcrete and stainless steel, is the very last word in court-house design. But inside those acoustically balanced halls of justice, the personnel and practices of Middlesex County government have not changed much since the bad old days when men in pin-striped suits traded political favors in smoke-filled rooms. Balding attorneys and paunchy politicians still hover in the hallways. Superior Court judges cling to their traditional summer long vacations even though the new building's air-conditioning system makes...
Died. Bernard ("Toots") Shor, 73, Runyonesque saloonkeeper and drinking companion to the mighty and famous; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boisterous and beefy (250 lbs., 6 ft. 2 in.), Shor in his heyday would customarily quaff a bottle of brandy a night at the 54-ft. circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more...