Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick dazzles the eye and bends the mind in this space-age parable of the meaning of life...
That the proper use of open space is to structure the growth around it. Most people would say: True. But in a refreshing, optimistic and constructive book, The Last Landscape (Doubleday; $6.95), Author and Conservationist Wil liam H. Whyte firmly disagrees...
Another ingrown cliche concerns the value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land...
...semispheres of fireproof nylon, inflated by air pumped between the walls. Inside, the semi-sphere walls would have served as huge, curved screens for a variety of films. Visitors would ascend on escalators and stand on graduated platforms, where they would feel almost as if they were suspended in space...
...planes fly higher, the risk of collisions with space fragments may also rise. In the 1970s, supersonic transports (SSTs) will be soaring at 70,000 ft. -nearly twice the ceiling of present-day passenger jets. In that rarefied atmosphere, space garbage is still more of a menace; the tiniest fragment could puncture the metal skin of an SST. Pentagon, NASA and commercial aviation officials all concede the dimensions of the future problem. But at present, the only formal warning system for commercial aviation is Herb Roth's part-time effort...