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California. Undaunted by official skepticism, one Clifford Harrod McCaslin of Oakland went on building his egg-shaped bomb shelter ("Ever try to crush an egg?"). His egg, when completed, will house 33, provide bunk space for 20. "They laughed ... at City Hall when I applied for a permit," said McCaslin, "but it isn't really funny...
...performers on the green grass of Epsom Downs, under a smiling summer sky. The Royal Academy voted it "Picture of the Year" in 1858, and London's National Gallery hung it in a place of honor. For decades, Derby Day was railed off to protect it from the crush, and a bobby stood constant guard near...
...fuel on fire, leaving a 100-yd. blanket of flame along the right of way. The driver escaped. So did another whose car later spun out of control at 40 m.p.h., crashed head-on into an entrance gate. A Soldier Field electrician who was caught in the crush was less fortunate; he was carried off with a fractured skull...
Since he moved to Los Angeles four years ago, Manhattan-born Artist Howard Warshaw, 30, has been fascinated by the crash and crush of its snarled traffic. For him, the city's traffic signals, with their brightly colored blinking eyes, have "the directness and brilliance of Indian pictorial sign language." One night, when he saw the bold white lines of intersection crosswalks framing a wrecked car and its injured driver, he decided that the "awful picture is the culmination of everything . . . the time when everything interlocks," went home to paint...
...Formosa Hold? In the six months that it took for the U.S. to make up its mind, the Reds had built up a sizable invasion fleet. The Red dragon began to spit fire; Communist leaders made belligerent statements about how.they would liberate Formosa and crush Chiang. Would Formosa be the dragon's next bite...