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Atomic Energy Commission scientists last week were "keyed up and ready" to take the U.S. into a new high level of nuclear testing. First shot on the agenda: a giant skyrocket exploding not more than 60 miles above Johnston Island, its sub-megaton flash visible in Hawaii 700 miles away, its power sending waves of electrical disturbance around the earth to be picked up by sensitive instruments...
...artist can have even more interesting repercussions. Two years ago, Octogenarian Jacques Villon fractured his hip bone, and the rumor quickly spread that he was dying. Within 24 hours, his canvases disappeared from gallery walls all over Paris as dealer after dealer waited for Villon prices to skyrocket. The old man recovered, but as one Right Bank dealer sheepishly says of himself and his colleagues: "We are like a bunch of undertakers, keeping a death watch on the older artists...
...throughway right of way, agreed to sell 180 acres to the county at cost to complete land acquisition for a $15 million sports stadium. The stadium will serve the new Houston National League baseball team, in which Hofheinz and Smith own the controlling interest; the highway should skyrocket the value of their remaining acreage and make far more marketable 177 nearby acres owned by Smith...
...spent working on his canvases. He even gains weight. Then a hungry Parisian low-life discovers the secret; he stares at a Lafleur painting for half an hour and practically belches from such gorging. Somatically speaking, the paintings can be eaten. Lafleur's "nutritive period" works skyrocket from 12,000 francs to 10 million. Even one of his "starvation period" paintings "radiates the equivalent of a small glass of milk." As the press and art critics rave, the public riots for its share of edible art. Lafleur is bureaucratized as a French national resource. But when the nutritive...
...land exists in Cambridge that does not contain at least a shack. Overdevelopment is particularly evident around the University itself, a district whose primarily residential character imposes decided restrictions on any construction that Harvard may anticipate. Because of those intrinisc limitations and because overdevelopment has caused land values to skyrocket, the University reasons that it must embark on a program aimed mainly at conversion of its own open land and out-dated facilities...