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...aluminum. If the satellite is spinning, the sail would spread itself by centrifugal force. Another method would be to construct a sail with inflatable tubes connected by fragile membranes on the model of an insect's wing. At the proper moment, plastic foam would be injected into the hollow tubes, distending them and spreading the sail. Later, the foam would harden to act as supporting ribs...
Behind the colorless and hollow names of Hattie S., 58, Walter B., 42, and two-year-old Ellen "with auburn hair, greenish eyes, dimples and an impish smile" are shattered, hungry, confused, forsaken, and pained men, women, and infants. Their uncommon glory is to be the dregs of prosperity, the stagnant backwash of our land of freedom and liberty and forever free enterprise...
...more intimate account of life in the commune came from a young mother who managed to escape to Hong Kong, hollow-cheeked and scaly from bad diet. At 5 each morning, she and her husband were aroused for "mass sports" (i.e., calisthenics). Their only meal together with their two sons was breakfast. Her husband was sent off in one direction to work all day, she in another. They put their young sons in a common nursery (which charged for the privilege), and the children's 70-year-old grandmother worked on a "mending brigade." Among other conveniences...
Under red, blue, green and yellow lights at a club in Léopoldville's sprawling native quarter, women in grass skirts and men with chalked bodies stomped to the hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then Gerald Tzinga and his Rock-a-Mambo Band took over, and white-shirted clerks sedately circled the concrete floor with their partners. With dances, military parades, bicycle races, football matches and the mass distribution of medals for faithful service, the Congo celebrated last week the soth anniversary of its annexation by Belgium...
...bandstands. A Spanish-born architect who was once Spain's ski champion, Candela fought with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell for Mexico's University City Cosmic Ray Pavilion...