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...feet than the usual naked steel. Fluorescent lighting has replaced the traditional harsh, caged lightbulbs of older ships. Hatch-openings, rocket launchers and other shin-cracking hazards are sprinkled with buttons that glow at night. Throughout, the ship is a symphony in color-dynamics: "Sarasota brown," "Clipper blue," pastel green. Marine prints and woodcuts adorn the bulkheads...
...crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That Sarasota sand overhead. I've had a stiff neck for 13 years...
Over the Pans. To judge by their manifestoes, the antagonists had few real deep-down issues to differ over. Burned badly by their six-year watch over the hot pans of nationalization, the Laborites are no longer such strident advocates of Marxist Socialism. The once deep-blue Tories, turned pastel by the demands of a new, more progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties...
Last week, in a pastel blue and grey room on the fifth floor of a St. Louis office building, the newest Wellsian brain in the earthly world was enthroned. This quintessential brain looked like nothing more than a collection of filing cases, stretching in a 60-ft. semicircle about the room. From within the grey metal cases came a faint humming sound; along the light-studded metallic face were scores of twinkling orange sparks, rippling like waves of thought. As in the Grand Lunar's palace, a blaze of light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy...
...automobiles designed by Soviet factories for public sale. (A fifth, the ZIS, the big, black limousine modeled after the Packard of 15 years ago, is made to order only for high government use.) It is the first to be offered in a variety of shiny colors (dark blue, pastel green, beige light blue), instead of the usual flat drabs of other Soviet cars, like the Pobeda (built along the lines of an undersized 1939 Ford) and the ZIM (which looks like an elderly Buick). The Volga is also the first to offer such Western frivolities as the automatic shift...