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...rectangle (120 ft. from the rear wall to the stage apron, 69 ft. 8 in. between the narrow side balconies). Similarly, the main floor and stage are constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will act as sounding boards. The hall is snugger than before (650,000 cu. ft., v. 850,000), and since any pianissimo needs silence, each air-conditioning duct is lined, and the tightly sealed doors weigh 370 Ibs. each. Every piece of plaster and wood is the solidest money...
...knickers-style ski pants will come in more colors this year, and become snugger than previously...
...knickers-style ski pants will come in more colors this year, and become snugger than previously...
...Pentagonian always lives "by the book." Confronted with a problem, his instinct is to find a precedent (nothing makes a Pentagonian feel snugger than to curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials...
Many who follow the macroscopic Explorations of George Burton are likely in the end to go scudding off with Economist Schwartz to the snugger valleys of the damfool wilderness. For Author John F. Wharton, Manhattan lawyer who made a name for himself with The Theory and Practice of Earning a Living, has now taken on a far more staggering job: a sum-up of modern physics and psychology, and an answer to modern man's anguished cry: "Where do I fit in? What is there to fit into...