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...sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes. The light washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections...
...boxy appearance. Coming in for the biggest changes at Chevrolet is the Corvette. Rakishly restyled, with a body 7 in. longer than present models', the '68 Corvette has high-backed seats, hideaway windshield wipers and jet-age gizmos like the "spoiler"-a raised airflow deflector that adds a decorative touch to the rear deck, also helps reduce the danger of spin-outs at high speeds...
...pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat, and a sound beyond description rolls across the desert. The flame hits a steel deflector 130 ft. below, spreads in a wide fan, and pushes ahead of it a dense cloud of smoke, steam, dust and rocks...
Perhaps most important is the final masking of surgeons and nurses. Despite double-thickness or deflector masks (TIME, March 2), Dr. Adams insisted that the fitted filter mask is the only sure preventive of bacterial infection spreading from doctor to patient. The model he favors comprises two layers of copper wire cloth (mosquito screening) with a layer of Fiberglas (in the form of Filter-down) in between. This filter, developed for the Atomic Energy Commission, contains no holes more than half as big as staphylococci, thus blocks their passage completely. Since the mask is molded snugly to the face, many...
...place and he is catapulted downward out of the plane. Once free of the cockpit, the seat projects an 8 in. by 5 in. steel plate on a 4-ft. boom in front of the pilot, shielding him from the force of the airstream much as an auto-hood deflector diverts bugs from a windshield. Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp. the space surgeon, says that this gimmick puts...