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Large-scale uses are unlikely until the price comes down. The batteries are ex pensive because they are made of highly purified silicon ($280 per lb.), which must be "grown" by a tricky process into a single crystal about the size of a fat banana. The wafers are cross sections one-fiftieth of an inch thick, and they must go through a subtle chemical treatment be fore they will work as batteries...
...years the Metropole featured a mid-Victorian atmosphere, with small crystal chandeliers dangling from its stucco ceiling, and a Gay Nineties revue on its narrow platform. When febrile '54 lost interest, the café took a flyer on jazz, tentatively signed Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...
...music, the house itself will be the major attraction. The façade remains practically the same. Inside, the building has been redecorated (in the old ivory, gold and red) and modernized: no gallery pillars to sit behind, earphones for back seats, air-circulation system concealed in the giant crystal chandelier. Part of the former imperial box now holds radio, TV and lighting controls. The new stage is the largest and best-equipped opera stage in the world. Complete sets can be rolled on, revolved, or lowered into a cavernous substage in a matter of minutes. Dressing rooms are wired...
...residence of the Czar's regent in Poland, the top Communist leaders of Russia's satellite states conferred with Premier Bulganin and Defense Minister Zhukov over a fistful of interlocking treaties for the Soviet Union's NATO-type organization in Eastern Europe. The meeting got the crystal-chandelier treatment, with all flags flying...
Actually, says DuBridge, science is merely one path to greater understanding. "Men climb Mt. Everest, explore the bottom of the sea, sail to the far corners of the earth, explore the atom, the crystal and the stars-all because they are born explorers . . . Are science and engineering just the tools for man's amusement and for his ultimate destruction? Let us say, rather-and more truthfully-that they are his ... tools in his eternal struggle to achieve his highest ... spiritual ends...