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Above the forest of silvered smokestacks that mark Anglo-Iranian's huge oil refinery at Abadan soar five towering gas pipes. For years flaming pillars of gas have jetted from these pipes, casting a ruddy glow on the night sky. But last week the night sky over Abadan was black. All but a handful of the 3,500 British oilmen who had tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted...
...really works out-it will have inventors all over the country kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Just behind the curved face of the tube is a flat glass "viewing plate" on which are printed fine parallel lines of colored phosphors, i.e., materials that glow in red, green or blue when struck by speeding electrons. The lines are arranged in groups, each containing one line of each color, with 450 groups in all. The plate also carries a strong electric charge to attract electrons...
Applied to such masterpieces as Hans Memling's painting of Bathsheba leaving her bath, Michelangelo's judgment is harsh and crude. Instead of mixing his colors, Memling laid them on pure and thin in overlapping glazes. As a result, the picture seems to glow from within. Its narrow space recedes dramatically to the tiny figure of King David peeping from his terrace. The severely angular composition contrasts artfully with Bathsheba's soft curves...
...nhilde and Wotan without their winged helmets? Siegfried's funeral pyre just a dainty red glow offstage-plus a couple of puffs of smoke from the wings? Oldtimers at Bayreuth paled with shock last week as they watched Richard Wagner's grandsons streamlining grandfather...
...Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign of a cloud-borne castle...