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...muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural gas that lights up some fields at night, of spherical storage tanks, huge gate valves, heavy flow lines and brightly lit cracking plants. There was a symbol of oil in war-two G.I.s tensely guarding a fuel dump on Sai-pan-and a salute...
...main gallery; he was not a nervous man, but the gallery held most of the 114 famous paintings of the "Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
...Glowing Brains. Physically, rats are not much like humans. Monkeys are better. Sitting strapped to miniature pilots' seats they look like small, worried old men. Sometimes when they ride with G, they have round windows cut in their skulls and covered with transparent plastic. A strong ultraviolet light is played on their brains and a fluorescent chemical is injected into their bloodstreams. Then during the ride the doctors can tell when the treated blood has reached the brains: the blood vessels glow brilliantly...
...three days planning his shots, but could never ask a worker for permission to take his picture until just a few minutes beforehand: "Otherwise they would wash up, slick down their hair, and look most unnatural." He needed dozens of flashes for some shots; on others used only the glow of hot steel. Karsh was fascinated, went back a second time, and now plans to take a few industrial assignments each year...
Heavy enough hydrogen clouds, however, manage to bend the magnetic lines of force into a gigantic funnel. Then sun particles pour through into the earth's atmosphere. Oxygen atoms near the earth's surface begin to glow and sparkle when struck by the speeding hydrogen. All through the "magnetic funnel" the luminous oxygen shimmers and shines in crimson and yellow and green streamers, which are the waving rainbow of the northern lights...