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Vertical Drop. No one. least of all General Harkins. argues that the tide of battle has turned against the Viet Cong. No timetable for victory has been established, and no accurate assessment of the up-and-down guerrilla war is yet possible. Some hopefully point to the fact that the...
Controlled Environment. Other figures sit against sculpted walls-an experiment in controlling the figure's environment. Some pieces are not figures at all, but totemlike structures that occasionally seem a bit arbitrary. Moore explains these as his effort to capture vertical movement after doing so many reclining figures. "One...
> The standard Pontiac will change its headlight pattern from the present four abreast to vertical pairs, one light directly above the other on each side.
When Saarinen died at 51 last September, he left a portfolio of projects that include much of his most daring work.† Of these, the CBS building was unique in Saarinen's eyes because "it will be the simplest skyscraper statement in New York," a "vertical leap of masonry...
Last week the AEC explained that recent bomb tests have been conducted in deep vertical shafts. The walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape...