Word: designs
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Speaking before the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum in Washington, D.C., Professor Mason Willrich, who chaired an international body of experts studying the problem, said that most scientists in the field "consider the design and manufacture of a crude nuclear explosive device to be no longer an extremely difficult task technically." He warned that both the amount of nuclear material and the number of people who have access to it are growing at a disturbing rate. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commission pointed out that the construction of even the most rudimentary device would require...
...Most poisonous substances are marked clearly enough to alert adults as to their hazards, but these warnings frequently prove ineffective for children. Many youngsters cannot decipher the labels even if they try; some are more attracted than repelled by the traditional skull-and-crossbones caution symbol. A new design, however, appears to get the message across. Known as Mr. Yuk, it consists of a face with an agonized expression and protruding tongue, which tell a child that the stuff he is about to consume...
...astonishing book. It explodes just about every long-accepted rule on the way we build housing projects. It shows a direct relationship between the design of a building and the amount of crime committed inside (TIME, Nov. 6). It also suggests a solution in its title: Defensible Space (Macmillan; $8.95). The author: Oscar Newman, 37, a tall, bushy-bearded architect, director of New York University's Institute of Planning and Housing. His guidelines are being adopted by HUD, the New York State Urban Development Corp., and city housing authorities in Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. In an interview with TIME...
...Obviously, high crime rates were linked to social variables such as the percentage of families on welfare and the number of families without a father, but we were surprised to find that overall density of population in a project is not a critical factor. On the other hand, the design-where you put people-is crucial. Height itself is one major element. We discovered that high-rise projects, like the Rosen houses in Philadelphia and Van Dyke in New York, suffered much worse crime rates than those in some adjacent projects, which had similar densities and social types but were...
...snobbery and cruelty of the sorority system at its worst." In a college that was then geared to producing Rotarians and garden-club members, her intellectual gifts were a handicap. Her atrocious clothes did not help: to a Kappa rushing party, she wore a dress of her own design; it suggested a wheatfield with poppies. Her sponsor turned her back at the sight, and Margaret found the evening "strangely confusing" because she did not then know that everyone had been given a signal to ignore her. The ostracism lasted all year, and for the first time Mead learned that both...