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...servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning-glories. He also built a low-slung modern house for President Herbert F. Johnson Jr., who apparently believes that Wright can do no wrong...
Bearing the brunt of U.S. antitank defense were two reliables: 1) the M36 (Slugger) with a high-velocity 90-mm. gun; 2) the fast, low-slung M18 (Hellcat) and its 76-mm. pieces. But the best antitank weapon of all is the rocket-firing fighter-bomber-weather permitting...
White Corp.'s rejuvenating tonic is compounded of many ingredients, and is expensive. For example, the Long Island is the only U.S. railroad now using double-decker coaches (it has three, low-slung to slide into tunnels); White Corp. recommended construction of a whole new fleet of them. Other medicine: electrification of 141 additional miles of line, improved riding comfort through installation of draught-proof windows, better car ventilators and lights, seats shaped to fit the human form, and heavier ballasted roadbed; in short, all the things other railroads have. The cost: $30 million...
...morning of April 18 was bitterly cold and rough. Off to the left, a cruiser let go a broadside. "A low-slung ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
Conversazione Piece-The low-slung, square-built bubbling Bishop of Bengasi, back to Libya from Italy just in time to give a sunny greeting all over again to his habitually returning guests, the British Navy...