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Some other changes, technical and sociological, can at least be imagined for the small-car, gasoline-short future. The car of the next decade may be more tubular-shaped to reduce wind drag, a prime factor in fuel economy, and come equipped with fuel-injection, which measures out the right amount of fuel needed for more complete combustion...
...Washingtonians were betrayed by their heavy winter coats, an anomaly in Los Angeles. No Redstein crowd was complete without a bugler, and loud charges ("Da Da Da DA Da DA") periodically echoed down the tubular walkways of the airport...
...unerring sense of material, texture, esthetics and practicality. These are all marks of good architecture, but they first surfaced in Breuer's furniture: tables, kitchen cabinets and, above all, chairs. Inspired by his bicycle's handlebars in 1925, he bent tubular steel into a frame, slung canvas in between and created the great "Wassily" chair. Handsome as it and later, cantilevered models were, Breuer was not concerned only with looks. "It has been argued that if a chair is beautiful, it is also comfortable," he has said. "This is as questionable as to say: if it is comfortable...
SHORTLY before noon last Wednesday, 20 U.S. Phantoms streaked east across Hanoi toward the battered Long-bien bridge and the antiaircraft positions along the Red River. Despite the unexpected presence of the jets overhead, only a few residents hurried toward the black, tubular individual bomb shelters that line the city's downtown streets. After all, never in the history of the Indochina war had densely populated downtown Hanoi been bombed. Last week Hanoi's luck ran out. By the time the air-raid sirens began to wail their warnings, the French diplomatic mission had been bombed into ruins...
...resultant space is unquestionably visually dramatic, with the elegant white tubular trusses drawing one's visual attention in one sweep from the first floor lounge area to the fifth floor studios. It also was expensive. Problems in fabrications of the elements of the freespanning roof helped spiral the cost of the building from an estimated $6,000.000 to close to $10,000.000. Edward R. Baldwin, a member of the design team, claims open studio space cannot be converted. If we had built columns the department would have partitions in the studio by the dedication ceremoney...