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...disappointed: "I'm afraid it looks like hell." It was soon looking better as Alicia poured her energies into the paper, bringing it to life with a healthy mixture of news, irreverence and breeziness. Newsday's format was novel for a tabloid, with large type, three-column width on its pages, and a center Feature section stuffed in upside down for handy removal. Her interest covered every field-from politics to sin in the choir loft. When a frustrated editor asked her what she wanted in the paper, she shouted back the Patterson formula: "Dogs! Cats! Murders!" Guggenheim...
There could surely be no water waves, since the temperature of Mercury on its permanently sunlit side is 1,800° F. The roughness of Mercury could be due to any irregularities more than a foot or so in width-large enough to scatter the 5-in. waves of the Goldstone transmitter. If Mercury's surface were smoother than that, the radar waves would be reflected from a small highlight in the center of the disk. Instead, the planet is radar bright all over, which means that its whole surface must have irregularities that bounce radar waves back toward...
...they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression...
...Player was only a stroke behind. Enter the bee-to light smack on Arnie's ball. He frowned, stepped back, muttered for the critter to buzz off. Eventually, the message got through. But as the bee departed, Palmer, standing five feet away, saw the ball move-maybe the width of a blade of grass. Oh Lord! Three weeks before, Palmer had been disqualified in the Bing Crosby National for breaking a rule. He huddled with officials. If he was somehow responsible for the ball moving, it would cost him one stroke; if not, there would be no penalty...
...mentions that Hanover St. in Baltimore, Md., where he worked before coming to Cambridge, is of the same width as the local thoroughfare, yet handles 5000 cars on hour, compared with Mass. Ave's present 1500. Hanover St. has five lanes, and the direction of traffic in the center lane is indicated by lights and is switched automatically as necessary...