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...remotely controlled locks for car trunks or motor hoods. They show promise of great value as relays for operating switches at a distance. And in the not too remote future they may help an orbiting astronaut make his way around his zero-gravity spaceship. Weightless, the space traveler would float aimlessly. With ceramic sandwiches in the soles' of his shoes and small batteries in his pocket, he could walk up metal walls or cross a ceiling using only a pair of pushbuttons to control his magnetic footing...
...FESTIVAL OF GAS. the $5,000,000 exhibit of the gas industry, designed by Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, will be a pure white building 300 ft. long, 130 ft. wide and 50 ft. high, which will seem to float gassily in space with no walls...
...sing much of the time toward the center of her range, where she is happiest, and in last week's performance her voice had all the remembered caressing skill that can breathe dramatic life into a line with effortless ease. Her role gave her ample opportunity to float out those clear, carrying pianissimos that reach to the last row in the house...
Often an Okada painting will suggest a bit of landscape or sky, but sometimes, as in Memories, the images simply float across the canvas like some sort of exquisite flotsam. In the last five years, Okada's palette has grown increasingly muted, and his colors have a weathered look as if time had washed over them again and again, giving them that frail grace that comes only with great age. Nothing is consciously organized; it is Okada's achievement that, in the end, everything still seems in place. This is the chaotic logic of a remotely remembered dream...
...forces would go no farther. Thant assured them that they had halted at the Lufira River. That was correct, up to a point. With three bridges down, the Indians stopped at the Lufira all right, but only long enough to rig ropes and pulleys to a swimming float and ferry 120-mm. mortars, recoilless rifles and Jeeps across the stream. Noronha had no orders to take Jadotville-but then again, he had no orders not to-so he kept on going. Unopposed, the Indians trooped into Jadotville with Noronha himself heading a column of Jeeps...