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The paintings were by a stage designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard...
The human detritus was buried or carted away. The rubble had been heaped into piles, like unmelting snow, or trucked out of town and dumped. Slowly the skeletons of Europe's wrecked palaces, cathedrals and cities had emerged. The cultural bill for Europe's latest berserk spree was...
When Russians build on frozen ground, they sink piles deep into the permafrost, melting the holes with steam jets. The piles are then wrapped in tar paper and greased, so that the topsoil, freezing and thawing with the seasons, cannot stick to them and heave them. But piles are scarce...
Piles for Power. The scientists who dominate the raw and regimented city are not relying on missionaries alone. They are giving the Atomic Age a mighty shove by designing a power-producing pile, the most promising peacetime application of nucleonics.
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler...