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...Loremo's frame consists of three steel girders running from front to back that transport the energy of a crash underneath the passengers. That innovation means Loremo's frame weighs only about 100 kg, compared to 300 kg for the frame of a similar-size conventional car. A crossbeam in the center of the car between the front and rear seats, which are arranged back-to-back, stabilizes the frame...
...Shaped like an upside-down V, the crossbeam provides a cavity in which to place the engine and the gas tank. The body of the Loremo is made of thermoplastic, a light and flexible synthetic material currently used in the airline and rail industries. The car sits low to the ground; air shafts built into the underside of the frame channel air through to the rear, pushing the car closer to the road, which adds to stability and reduces air resistance. Sommer claims that this design saves weight, improves aerodynamics and still provides resistance in a crash to the same...
...furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most unabashedly Japanese of Maki's designs to date, however, are in his 18-bedroom guesthouse for foreign trainees of the YKK zipper-manufacturing concern near Komatsu. Here, shoji, entrance hall, crossbeam and other elements of ancient Japanese architecture are reinterpreted in ways that are at once both strange and familiar...
Crimson forward Art Faden had missed two scoring opportunities when he headed the ball from a good position out over the crossbeam...
...beaten or scrubbed by hand. To improve on this, the International Cooperation Administration demonstrated a wooden, hand-operated washing machine simple enough to be built by semiskilled workers for $3 on a quantity basis. The washer holds the clothes in a rectangular tub while two plungers, attached to a crossbeam that is operated by hand, force water back and forth through them. ICA plans to send models to its missions around the world...