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...uranium. His principal asset is a machine called the Benson Upgrader, with which it is theoretically possible to refine low-grade uranium ore several times over until it is fairly bursting with creamy-rich atomic goodness. The only difficulty is that the Benson Upgrader, which is something like a gravel washer, does not work very well...
...standards of the New York Thruway, Formosa's cross-island highway, totaling some 200 miles, is no cloverleaf designer's dream. Only 12 ft. wide and gravel-surfaced most of the way. it is restricted to alternating one-way traffic with cutoffs for passing. Traffic moves at a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h. To build it, the government mobilized more than 12,000 workers. Hanging by ropes over the edges of thousand-foot cliffs, workmen planted dynamite, then with pick and shovel carved the highway into near-vertical rock faces. All told, the road required 61 bridges...
...life beneath a sky he sees as both acid blue and searingly hot. "Behind some grass," says he of a painting called The Ambush, "there's a girl. She's kind of a plain Jane. Well, she's waiting for the boy coming down the gravel road. And she's going to get him." Simple? Cloar's scenes-a traveler silhouetted starkly against the sky, three farmers talking hopefully of the spring, two men wandering down a ghostly moonlit road past a giant sign saying, JESUS SAVES-happen every day. But Cloar builds each into...
...body without a head," said Daddah, choosing the little oasis settlement of Nouakchott (pop. 600) as a convenient central seat of government. Today, with the help of French grants and loans, Daddah is slowly building a town; using seashells from the coast as a cheaper substitute for the gravel needed to make concrete. He lives in a prefabricated house just like most of the other prefabricated houses in Nouakchott, contents himself with a tiny Citroen, and sees that his ministers are equally frugal...
...Camp David, the presidential retreat on a Maryland mountaintop, that Khrushchev's visit came into focus with its greatest meaning to 1959. At Camp David, under a canopy of oak leaves, the President of the U.S. and the Premier of the U.S.S.R. walked and talked along winding gravel paths, lived together for three days in Ike's grey, batten-board Aspen Lodge...