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Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...
Pictures taken by the astronauts on the moon and released at week's end seemed to support his opinion; all showed a nearby and relatively featureless horizon that would make it difficult for explorers to get their bearings. But Shepard demurred. "I don't believe that we were disoriented or lost at any time," he insisted...
ANYONE who has ever served on a Navy ship knows the all too familiar experience of being ordered out of port on short notice, racing to a featureless coordinate at sea, and then circling for days without ever knowing all of the reasons why. There was no uncertainty at all among the sailors and airmen of the Sixth Fleet ships that steamed watchfully in the eastern Mediterranean all last week. They knew from TIME'S cover story on the outbreak of civil war in Jordan (see cut), as well as from other sources, that Washington "was carefully leaking muted warnings...
...will be concealed behind windowless walls or veiled by vast expanses of glass. A final judgment will have to wait until the time, still at least ten years off, when the project is completed. But some critics already feel that the new park façade is blank and featureless; it seems more appropriate to a factory than to one of the world's greatest art museums...
...invisible . . . And Exempt. Immunity has been granted to me, for I do not lose my cool. Polarity is selected at will, for I am not ionized and I possess not violence. Call me inert and featureless but Beware, I am the Shadow, free to cloud men's minds. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? I am the Dracula, look into...