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...cantilevered truss made up of tetrahedrons (four-sided pyramids) and octahedrons (eight-sided figures), which looks like something made by a giant playing with an Erector set. Made of lightweight aluminum tubes, the "octet" truss cantilevers outward 60 ft. from a single support, weighs only 3 lbs. per sq. ft. v. some 100 lbs. for a comparable structure in conventional steel beams...
...this is trussed together by hundreds of yards of Composer Tiomkin's sound track-a sort of Faroukish turn ("Come to my tent, O my beloved") on the old snake-dance tune. It may not be much as music, but it's perfect as a truss...
Blow-Prone. In Birmingham, Caretaker Clifton Truss, who in eight months had been twice conked by a tractor, twice bludgeoned by prowlers, was fired by the park & recreation board because of his "affinity for being hit on the head...
Belated Thoughts. While such amenities were being exchanged, Washington was beginning, belatedly, to realize that the effort to truss up the Reds at the conference table was not enough; that safeguards, inspection devices, etc., etc., could probably not be negotiated in a form that would guarantee that the enemy could not attack again (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But still the men at Panmunjom went, businesslike, about their daily task. For some kind of agreement with the enemy is necessary too, if the U.N. expects to get its prisoners back from the Communists...
Naturally, a structure of such proportions was a spectacular job of engineering. Fifty thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building...