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...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...
...Europe, Nazi scientists had designed, but never tested, several advanced rockets. One, the Ag, had wings. When it plunged into denser air from the top of its trajectory, it was expected to glide for 1,500 miles before striking the earth. The A10, even more ambitious, was a composite rocket, weighing 85 tons. Part would drop off at 15 miles up, allowing the remainder, an A9, to reach an altitude of 165 miles. Theoretical range: 3,500 miles. The German A14 was still secret last week, which might mean that either the U.S. or Russia does not have its details...
Theoretically, spaceships could be steered (around the moon, for instance) by shooting out side-blasts of gas or radiation. When returning to earth, they could be slowed down gradually by coasting in a lopsided spiral through the outer fringes of the atmosphere. If they should hit the denser air unbraked, they would turn as white-hot as a meteor...
...except Rockefeller Center. Ferriss once called the skyscraper the "hieroglyph of capitalism, commercialism, and confusion-a symbol of an age in which there is no spirituality." In the '20s New York's cube-like buildings were getting higher & higher. New York streets darker & darker, New York traffic denser & denser, when the city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must "step back" as they rose. Architects were horrified at such restrictions on "individual initiative." But Visualizer Ferriss, who got his early architectural experience sketching full-size details for the Woolworth Building, evolved a basic skyscraper form which...
...different distances but in the same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...