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...safety and reliability of seagoing nuclear power. The power plant and 690 lbs. of enriched uranium-to be loaded next spring-will be shielded by a 33-in.-thick ring of water, a steel cylinder, then a 2,000-ton composite shield, and finally by a 24-in. redwood and steel collision mat. Dotted around the ship will be twelve monitors to gauge radiation on passengers and crew (probably no more than normal atmospheric radiation). Visitors to Savannah will be able to see her innards from a gallery around the plant and through closed-circuit...
...From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported by a Redwood exterior. The pools, named after Company President Esther Williams, are movable...
Varnish Off. Near Santa Rosa, Calif., a sign by the Redwood Highway says: WE BUY JUNK-SELL ANTIQUES...
...puckish ways, Maybeck was one of the truly great originals of U.S. architecture. At the turn of the century, along with Frank Lloyd Wright (seven years Maybeck's junior) and a few others, he pioneered the beginnings of a native U.S. architecture. Maybeck not only introduced California redwood as an artistic building material, but insisted that wood and stone alike be left natural. Like Wright, Maybeck broke up living spaces, combined dining and living areas, opened up the house to the outdoors, incorporated whole walls of glass into his buildings. Last week the California Palace of the Legion...
...presenting the American way of life is evidenced in the main floor exhibit entitled Face of America. Here are such typical trivia of American life as a page-by-page display of a Sunday Times, a football uniform, a showcase filled with election buttons, and a section of California redwood...