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...thunderous explosion ripped through three towering gasoline tanks at a Texaco storage facility in Newark. The blast killed one man and injured 21 others. After using water and foam to contain the blaze, hundreds of fire fighters watched as the giant vessels slowly began to burn themselves out. By daylight the tanks, filled with some 3.4 million gal. of gas for service stations in New York and New Jersey, were flaming mounds of crumpled metal. Fire officials are investigating the cause of the explosion...
Within the nine-story Hart Building, Warnecke has created a vast 100-ft.-high skylit atrium of the kind that Architect Kevin Roche pioneered at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. This eliminates the endless, oppressive corridors of other congressional buildings and lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died...
...Heaven (1971) imagines the year 2002 and a hero whose dreams become reality. Along with the fantasies, Le Guin textures her tales with poetic leaps. When a jellyfish is flung on the beach, she writes, "What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur who regards her craft as a pastime. Early on, the Fulbright scholar decided on fiction as a career. Says she:"It's like music...
...1970s, the Pentagon's chief electronic Peeping Toms have been a series of satellites conceived at Lockheed's famed "skunk works," including the Big Birds. The twelve-ton observatories usually travel in polar orbits so they can cover every spot on earth once every 48 hr. in daylight. Big Bird sends back TV images and provides high-resolution photographs, which are ejected in parachute-equipped canisters that can be hooked in mid-air by recovery planes. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have satellites that can scan the earth with radar beams. One objective: to track naval...
...main galleries, with their rhetorically high ceilings and towering walls of bushhammered concrete ("soaring" is the requisite adjective here), completely dwarf the paintings, turning Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra's one architectural asset, natural daylight. Without it, the paintings look embalmed. This accords with the programmatic opinions of one of the gallery's early advisers, the former American museum director James Johnson Sweeney, but it is a grave mistake...