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...most certainly is. In Texas the U.S. has a state which produces four times as much cotton lint as any place else around (4,308,000 bales in 1958); the Ohio River is spanned by the largest Simple Truss Bridge anywhere--the Metropolis Bridge has a main span of some 720 feet! Or take a camera to Oklahoma on September 16, for the colorful Indian ceremony known jocularly as "Cherokee Strip...
...needy areas. The help, however, is meant to be unobtrusive, and should not -via bulge, seam, ridge or twanging wire -make itself conspicuous. The U.S. foundation industry has looked for years for a brassiere that will support and uphold the female figure (and its component parts) without betraying its truss...
...either. The Breakout is an almost classic story of what happens to the poor devil who knows that neither his wife nor children really need him. When the victim tries to do what seems to him the intelli gent thing, Gary's knowledge of people is used to truss him up like a sacrifice...
...mechanical equipment. Each floor is hung like a bridge span between the piers. By doing away with interior columns, Pei gives the building open space which can later be converted into either a library or an auditorium. The windows are ovals. Explains Pei: "Since the outer walls are trusses, I had to obey the stress lines developed in the truss. Oval windows were designed because they most closely follow the stress lines, like windows in an airplane...
...tensegrity mast is an ideal, lightweight kingpost from which to sling hovering floors or soaring ceilings. The octet truss can be extended in any of twelve directions, used whenever a light and inexpensive space frame is needed to span great distances. "Right now," says Bucky, "the truss and mast together could be made to bridge the Grand Canyon...