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...sparking" discharges and ultrasonics. In the electrical discharge field (TIME, Nov. 10), U.S. experts guessed that the Russians are ahead of the U.S. In the more conventional machines and in the automatic ones operated by magnetic tapes (including a machine that cuts the word peace in a metal slab), the guess was that the U.S. is ahead...
...structure, second of its kind in New England, has been designed by professionals and will resemble a "concrete umbrella" already built in Canton. The three-inch thick concrete slab will be 48 by 48 feet and supported by a lone 20-inch square center post. A three-foot thick triangular piece of concrete under the surface will support the "umbrella...
...lighted with the calculated drama of a stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...
...rushed into the field. Passersby paused to watch and to jeer and cheer him as he dug all morning long. It was a much bigger job than he-had expected. By noon Kawamura had dug down 6 ft. of earth and uncovered one face of the tombstone-a massive slab 1 ft. thick and 4 ft. wide. Apparently bent on a rest, he started to clamber out of the 6-ft. pit. But. at just that moment, the huge gravestone toppled forward and crashed down on the luckless Kawamura. What the fortuneteller had prophesied had, in a fashion, come...
...Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side got worse than ever. Soon she was nauseated and feverish; then her headache became unbearable...