Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deep in a dial-studded cabinet on the Navy's test ship Compass Island lies a hollow sphere of beryllium no bigger than a baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
...that was hollow talk. The line was still drawn. Rubinstein gave the proceeds of the evening to the International Red Cross-still engaged in salving wounds from the war. And as a little reminder that his old oath was not forgotten, he said: "We Jews are sentimental people. We are in tears when we come to a spot where we know our people have been killed. Can you imagine how my hundreds of relatives, all slaughtered by the Germans, would feel looking down from the sky at me-playing in Berlin...
...mechanized plasticulture. A tractor huffs across the field trailing a 20-in. band of black film from a big roll. Two disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow...
...damage the temple's stonework. Visitors would be able to admire the temple from submerged portholes reached by elevators. MacQuitty estimates that his scheme will cost only $14 million, including the elevators and water-treatment plant. Another stop gap British scheme suggests covering the temple with a hollow pyramid sealed to keep out the water. The pyramid, says J. S. Chudha, a Kenya Indian practicing architecture in London, will be appropriate for Egypt. It could be built mostly of native materials and should not cost more than $8,400,000. UNESCO has not smiled on either British plan...
...Czar's torment is terrible-but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last...