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...Feather on a Head. What is architecture? It was, said Le Corbusier in his book, something that went far beyond style. "The styles of Louis XIV, XV, XVI, or Gothic, are to architecture what a feather is on a woman's head." Essentially, architecture was the "masterly, correct, and magnificent placing of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light. Cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage...
Precisely at 10:15, the President and his lady descended the stairs to the entrance hall. Jackie had on a sleeveless, floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive...
...Caro nome, in which she ended with a high trill that floated like a feather across the darkened stage...
...midair, its 10-ft. rotor blades windmilling, the makeshift craft looks like an airborne Erector set. But in the hands of an experienced pilot, it can fly like a startled mosquito-straight up to 8,000 ft., forward, sideways or backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen U.S. cities from San Diego to Cedar Rapids, do-it-yourself helicopter kits were outselling Jaguars, and homemade choppers were buzzing peaceful country cow-pastures. Said one fledgling flyer: "There isn't anything in boats, motorcycles, sports cars, parachute...
...twice that amount. As naive in business as in politics, the Laotians hardly knew how to handle their new wealth-until a few sharp Indian and Chinese traders rushed into Vientiane to show them. Favorite device: the import license. Laotians with political pull got import licenses for everything from feather dusters to nail polish to television sets-though there is no TV station in Laos. They could then buy foreign exchange at the official rate of 35 kip to the dollar, sell the dollars on the black market for 100 kip or more, and then rush back to buy more...