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...white-hot gas. To kick out of earth orbit (which requires much less thrust than an earth launch), the 270-ft.-long ships will fire-and then discard-the two outboard NERVAs strapped to their sides; the main booster, at the center of the engine cluster, will be retained. Then, as the two ships pull away from earth orbit, they will be docked end to end to form a single unit within which the crews can pass back and forth through airlocks...
...stay. The Soviets have built permanent barracks for their soldiers, apartment houses for their officers and wives, and schools for Russian children. Certain choice seats are reserved for them at the National Theater and several concert halls. Understandably, the Soviet occupiers avoid mingling with the local population, preferring to cluster together in public places, often talking in whispers to one another. Even in civilian clothes, Russian soldiers are easily recognized by their crude serge suits, heavily starched shirts and close-cropped hair...
More serenely beautiful is Duration Piece No. 31, which documents in ten photos taken in a progressive time sequence a continuous stream of water flowing down a cluster of icicles. Adding a humorous note, the same water was later used to prepare the chemicals that developed and fixed the photographs. The photos are not arranged in chronological order; as we view them, we tend to look for the progressive formation of new icicles. When we discover the water was later used for the photos, we are freed from closing our concept on its frozen form. We now look...
...himself in 1622, through later annexations of communities like Germantown, to the present sprawling conurbation. It diagrams the changing patterns of ethnic distribution. The old Irish, Russian and German neighborhoods have largely dispersed; only the Italians in south Philadelphia and the blacks in the decaying north-central area still cluster together. In short, the guide treats the city as a series of human decisions, economic pressures and geographical imperatives...
Originally, the developers requested zoning waivers to construct a cluster of taller and more massy buildings--a 26-story office tower two 20-story apartments, and five-story garage. The request was denied, and CPT announced thereafter its willingness to discuss alternate plans with Cambridge citizens and business groups to reach a consensus...