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...displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position, it could take G forces that would crush that juicy colloid, the human body...
...eyes, Caldwell-Chiron seems, not surprisingly, a dichotomized being, for whom life takes on a quality of doubleness: the obvious and the metaphorical, the literal and the mythical. "Take your time," he said with a sudden sweeping motion of his hand, as if remembering that unseen audience before which he was an actor. You got lots of time to kill. At your age I had so much time to kill my hands are still bloody...
...nuclear war." Men like Hughes, Riesman, and Roger Hagan, periodicals like The Nation, organizations like SANE and the Women's Strike for Peace, are all pre-eminently concerned with awakening a slumbering public to the evils of the Cold War and the Arms Race, and mobilizing them against the unseen, unnamed enemy...
Biggest theater of operations for land-grabbing hucksters is Arizona, where some 630 so-called subdivisions have sprung up during the past 18 months and 60,000 lots have been sold, mostly sight unseen. Determined to get federal intervention to stop what may blow up into a national scandal, Arizona's Real Estate Commissioner J. Fred Talley recently testified before a U.S. Senate special committee, and concentrated his fire on an Arizona desert development called Lake Mead Rancheros...
...followed Mr. Whiteside into a small room almost entirely filled with a machine whose top surface was made up of rows of heavy wooden rollers. Our host then pushed a control which started these rollers spinning madly. "Okay, Joe," he shouted to an unseen attendant, "let'er roll!" With that, hundreds of apples came cascading down onto the whirling rollers from an opening in the wall. As they hit the machine they were bounced violently up and down and eventually were tossed into a receptacle at one end of the apparatus, much battered and bruised. Mr. Whiteside stopped the motor...