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...Most of the windows are made of laminated mirror glass that reflects 52.3% of sun heat and 62% of light, eliminating the need for curtains inside. The steel itself is a novel alloy called Cor-ten,* which rusts a dense protective coat onto itself -then stops, does not flake, and need never be painted. Although a half-million railroad cars have been made of it since 1933, Saarinen was the first to build with the steel that must rust...
Also widely admired was "Wild Dream," designed by Joe Wilhelm of San Jose Calif. With an aluminum body and chassis of rectangular tubing, 'it has a Corvette engine, the popular "California tilt" (front end lower than rear), and is finished in purple metal-flake acrylic paint...
This year thousands of Massachusetts car owners will scrutinize their 1964 plates with a fishy eye; last year most of the numbers had begun to flake off the 1963 plates by March. Nobody seemed to know exactly why, and there was much suspicion of skulduggery among the inmates of Walpole State Prison, where Massachusetts plates are made. Walpole's prison publication, The Mentor, recently warned: "Woe be to ye men who made registry plates last year and are desirous of parole this year...
...pairs of shoes are arranged in closets according to the color spectrum. "My friends say I have a 'perfect' complex," she says. "You should see my drawers. My maid goes crazy. It's weird that I'm so organized, yet I can be such a flake I'll forget an appointment...
...financial district's Clive Street, where they set up curb markets and soon moved onto the exchange. Marwaris are India's best bookmakers, so fond of betting that they will wager on the sex of an unborn child or the number of pips in a tangerine flake...