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...problem of noise annoyance has taken on monstrous proportions during the new wave of apartment building. It is all a question of mass, says Architect N. Dan Larsen of Manhattan's Frederick G. Frost Jr. & Associates: "World War II is a convenient dividing line. During the war, new, lighter materials were developed. The masonry wall eight to ten inches thick gave way to a plastered metal lath partition two or three inches thick." The whole thing resonates like a drumhead...
...against a hostile world, a machete in the jungle. Such a tool is his latest work shown, 1963-A, bristling with black fury like a thunderhead. It is swathed onto raw canvas with his palette knife like sooty icing, with only flecks of lavender and blue to serve a lighter side. It is also a darkling mirror of Still's personality. As he says, "Painting must be an extension of the man, of his blood, a confrontation with himself. Only thus can a valid instrument of individual freedom be created...
...past the goal with his stick raised high in triumph over his head. For ten minutes, 15,027 fans whooped it up, showering the ice with assorted debris -soiled cups, programs, fedoras, part of an apple, and a baked potato. Howe flashed a weary smile. "I feel ten pounds lighter," he sighed...
...shoots faster and is less likely to jam than the U.S. Army's standard rifle, the M-14. Though its firing range is not as great, it is smaller and lighter (6.4 Ibs. v. 8.7 Ibs.) than the M-14, a fact that makes it ideal for guerrilla-type fighting and more practicable for the U.S.'s small-statured Asian allies, who find standard U.S. rifles too big to handle. Most of the 104,000 M-16s that Colt will make under the new contract will be shipped to U.S. airborne divisions and Special Forces. If the rifle...
...lighter tone Telman Rzayev, a radio engineer, expressed his admiration for the "very many beautiful girls" he has noticed in the U.S., adding that "we also have beautiful girls...