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...between times, Navarro turns dials on imaginary television sets (gunfire everywhere), short-wave sets (static and screams), moves in on an auto race at Indianapolis (skid, crash, silence-then the thin crackle of flame...
Public buildings such as entertainment halls, skyscrapers, and transportation Terminals, Nervi predicted, will progressively increase in size. As dimensions increase, static laws increasingly determine shape until "for structures of huge dimensions, obedience to them is compulsory...
Nervi maintained that the basic uniformity of shape imposed on architecture by static law will run the risk of becoming "fatal monotony." "Binding as technical demands may be," he declared, there always remains a margin of freedom sufficient to show the personality if its creator and, if he be an artist, to flow his work, even in its strict technical obedience, to become a real and true work...
Finally, Nervi argued that by doing with the restictions of the traditional formwork, prefabrication permits richness of form, delicate refine- and the possibility of creating rhythms produced by the repeti- of equal elements." Static law defines basic structural form, but that the architect is free to express tastes...
...area of a prospective army attack. Said a U.S. officer drily: "Whatever the Viet Cong are, they're not dumb. When the attack was launched, they had all decamped." Among the most important lessons learned and urgently taught to the Vietnamese: abandon the "blockhouse mentality," in which static troops defend only themselves; give up moving in large units and in big "sweeps." which accomplish nothing in the Vietnamese terrain; develop "quicker reaction time," i.e., hit back faster. The U.S. effort is aimed at helping the Vietnamese to do this themselves...