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...reality. Along with Diet Smith, Tracy beat the astronauts to the moon by seven years. The intrepid detective talked into a two-way wristwatch-radio before the transistorized version was invented. Now Tracy has introduced the "humane" pistol. It fires a cartridge that on impact spurts a slippery, tranquilizing liquid that upsets the footing of a fleeing suspect and immobilizes him for half a minute-just enough time to slip on the handcuffs...
...started, recalls Designer Charles Prior Hall, with an "incredibly horrible thing" in his apartment. "I built a chair that was 300 lbs. of liquid starch encased in a vinyl skin. You would sit in this thing and it would creep up around you." The Incredible Creeping Chair, as Hall called it, failed to make the impact that he hoped for. But his efforts to improve it led him to a much splashier creation, which is now making an appearance-and creating a sensation -in department stores across the nation. It is the water bed, the bounciest bedroom invention since...
Locked Faults. There is one ideal solution: earthquake prevention. Some scientists have proposed using H-bombs to jar loose locked sections of faults, thus relieving accumulating strain that would otherwise build up to dangerous levels. More realistic is the possibility of using pressurized water or liquid waste to release this pent-up seismic energy. At two carefully studied sites in Colorado, liquid injections have been found to "lubricate" locked fault systems. This allows the plates to resume sliding past each other, setting off small but relatively harmless energy-dissipating tremors...
Modern research has now overcome that obstacle with powerful new electromagnets. Chilled to -450° F. by a jacket of liquid helium, their coils become superconductive. As the temperature approaches absolute zero ( - 459.7° F.), internal resistance to electrical currents virtually disappears. Even a slight pulse of electricity will keep currents flowing in the coils for indefinite lengths of time. Except for the electricity needed to refrigerate the helium, strong magnetic fields could thus be created in superconductors with a minimal use of power...
...should do, this show explores the earliest years, particularly the vivid paintings done in Corsica in 1898 and hardly seen since. The most sweeping changes that Matisse was to make are shyly explored in those first pictures. He celebrated well-laden tables, played with the refractions of light in liquid and glass, and caressed fruits and rich surfaces. He was hypnotized by the mysterious contrast between the cool interior and the hot partial view through the open window. But it was the human form that held for him the ultimate sensuous appeal. It was the engine of his creative exploration...