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...Ceiling-to-floor (8 ft.) doors and windows that simplify building. They also improve air circulation, make the house's six rooms seem much more spacious. Another cost-cutter: African-oak floor squares laid directly on the concrete foundation slab; they are only half as thick as ordinary wood parquet flooring yet are just as durable...
British Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, 66, chugged up the sheer Acropolis, posed-looking not unlike her own fictional Miss Marple with bumbershoot and catchall-beneath the world's most spine-tingling marble slab: the entablature of the Parthenon...
...scientific papers presented were highly technical and mostly concerned with specialized details. (Example: neutron transport theory in slab lattices, L. Trlifaj and J. Cermak, Czechoslovakia.) Much more interesting to the public was the general feeling among the scientist delegates, as expressed in interviews or press conferences. The first Geneva conference, 1955, was notable for unaccustomed fraternization between scientists from Communist and non-Communist countries. It also took the secrecy lid off the technology of fission reactors that burn uranium or other heavy elements...
Wild Man. Duren himself has been accused of deliberately throwing at batters and purposely firing wild warmup pitches to discourage batters from digging in at the plate. Duren denies both charges, explains: "The mound on the field is different-higher-than the warmup slab in the bullpen. I believe in getting adjusted to it by throwing as hard as I can, and sometimes it goes wild." The record shows that the brown-eyed fastballer is no scatter-arm pitcher. He has walked only 24 batters this season, hit only two. Says Detroit's Kaline: "Maybe he was wild once...
Never too busy to slip a verbal dirk into some offending slab of Americana, TV Playwright Paddy Chayefsky bared his latest bodkin in London: "I don't know what Hollywood stands for, but if it stands for current values I am dead against it. American values are all wrong -the pursuit of security and comfort, with everyone plugging away to be as ordinary as possible. It's like Rome. I can hear the clanking of the barbarians at the gates...