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...Congress and the AEC approve, scientists will drill a 20-in. shaft 1,200 ft. down into the ore deposit. They will then lower a 20-kiloton device to the bottom, plug the shaft, and set off a nuclear blast. From experience with previous tests, the AEC knows that the explosion will create tremendous pressures that will literally push the rock away from the blast center, fracturing it in all directions. The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris...
Windows are tucked into a single shaft at the center of each five-story column of offices and labs. Larger windows, opening out from large "think rooms" at the top of each tower, are hooded to protect them from the savage Colorado sun and 125-m.p.h. spring winds. The building's concrete is mixed with a red rock aggregate quarried from nearby mountains, and the building's surfaces are busnhammered to give them a rough finish. Then, to give the site back to nature, the surrounding mesa top, wherever it has been plowed up, is being resown with...
...productions were aimed imaginatively toward new, always controversial, often brilliantly successful dramatic ideals. Instead of the heavily literal, violently brassy, pompous stagings admired by Hitler, in which choral scenes often resembled SS rallies in a Black Forest thicket, Wieland created stark, impressionistic stage pictures with a shaft of light here, a barren rock there. To enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies toward performers and imported singers and conductors of all nationalities. Bayreuth's postwar glory, in fact, rests largely on the shoulders of American singers and conductors: George London...
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. The split of a suburban couple (Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds) provokes some tart dialogue: "The uranium mine to her, the shaft...
...most distinctive contribution to human ill health comes from its bite. There are credible stories of men, exhausted and sleeping, or trapped in a mine shaft, being bitten to death by rats. Far more common today is the case of the city mother, awakened by a cry in the middle of the night, who finds her infant in his crib bleeding from rat bites on the nose, lips or ears. The rat usually flees on her approach and escapes. The child may suffer from either of two types of rat-bite fever or from many common infections...