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...Officials, and out into the Arena gallop hundreds and hundreds of horses and riders. Some horse and riders move as one unit, and some riders are glued into the saddle. All the flags of the old west gleam in bright pastels. Round and round the arena they go, criss-crossing and yelling and screaming. Unfortunately, one rider falls of and walks back to the barns, shaking his head sadly...
...sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with what it calls a "jacket": eight heavy-walled steel cylinders, 34 inches in diameter and up to 100 feet long. It sets them upright in two widely spaced rows, and braces them with a criss-crossing network of strong piping welded to their sides. It loads the massive affair (weighing up to 250 tons) onto a big barge, and tows it out to the drilling site. Then a powerful crane, mounted on the barge, lifts the jacket and stands it up on the sea bottom...
...form of an antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...
Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...
With its chorus of 20 and its criss-crossing of themes, John Brown is outwardly more of a production than Don Juan was. Sometimes narrating events, sometimes reciting poetry, sometimes impersonating character, the stars move back & forth to the mike in a variety of roles. Beyond the appeal of the story, there is the novelty of the method...