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...single superbomb, exploded close to the ground, can contaminate a state the size of Maryland with lethal radioactivity. A "small-scale" attack [on the U.S.] with 28 bombs restricted to the industrial heart of America could produce an inverted L-shaped pattern over the northeastern states and an irregular fallout bracketing much of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. The "atomized" area would be occupied by 50 million Americans. Over two-thirds of the U.S. industrial production centers in the same areas...
Despite consistently high prices, few Cézannes were offered for sale. Among the contemporary painters, Matisse fetched the highest prices ($19,000 for an early fauve portrait). Derain, whose market had been irregular until his death last year, is expected to improve. Picasso is doing well, with interest centered in his early periods. Because of small output and resulting short supply. Modiglianis are likely to remain expensive (about...
...first, the record seemed to give off only a series of rumbles and gurgles. But soon the irregular surges and lulls began to sound like the surf, playing on pebbles, crashing on rocks, growing louder and louder until a big one landed with a thunderous roar, and the listener could almost see the flying spume and the screeching seagulls. Then, evoking a passage into a quiet bay, little waves lapped with a feathery sound on a soft beach, and a bell buoy clanked mournfully. On the other side of the record was a kind of aural shipboard narrative, beginning with...
...bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across it just as a river would do on dry land, and started to fill the next basin. The canyon just found east of Philadelphia is probably cut in the sediment of a filled-up basin...
...ancient Greeks, said Gold, were in rather the same fix when they tried to determine the shape of the earth. They could not see the earth as a whole and the details that they could see were confusingly irregular. But they fitted clues together and eventually decided (against common sense) that the earth is round...