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...from St. Louis who hardly moves at all. He selects a likely spot, sits on the ground, and peers at the bare earth. For hours, as the sun's angle slowly changes, he watches for a tiny glitter. It may be only a bit of quartz or a chip from a broken pop bottle, but when he sees the glitter, he dares not move his head. He just stares rigidly so as not to lose the gleam, while his wife, who has been waiting for orders, follows his directions and picks up whatever he has spotted. This sedentary system...
...freed many of his buildings from the limitations of structural steel or poured-on-the-job concrete. The chance to get sun-andshadow patterns by repeatedly casting structural parts in the same sculptured mold gives Yamasaki's architecture much of its embellishment. And he uses various devices, typically quartz surfacing, to avoid a raw-concrete look. Silhouette & Surprise. The first opportunity to put the ideas from his trip into practice came in August of 1955, when Detroit's drab Wayne State University commissioned Yamasaki to design the McGregor Memorial Community Conference Center. His concept was that the building...
...high and 28 ft. across. Then pumps will draw out the air, creating a hard vacuum just like that existing in space 250 miles high. The chamber's walls can be cooled to match the deathly cold of space, and a battery of arc lamps above quartz windows simulates the fierce unscreened sunlight. If a satellite survives this torture, it will probably work in actual space...
...White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window, he saw a strange sight. "There are things out there," he said dramatically over his voice radio. "There absolutely is." As White later described one "thing": "It looked like a piece of paper the size of my hand tumbling slowly outside the plane. It was greyish in color, and about...
Many people are hesitant when Kolouch first suggests hypnosis, and he does not press the idea. But by the second interview, most of them come around to accepting it, and the surgeon immediately sets about hypnotizing them. His attention-holding gimmick is a piece of gem quartz that the patient holds suspended from a chain. Dr. Kolouch arranges signals that will get the patient into a hypnotic trance promptly when needed in the future. He then assures the patient that he will feel nothing during the operation, that he will awake from the anesthesia with only minimum discomfort, and that...