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...Beach, passers-by gaped last week at two odd-looking "bubble houses," the first built from designs by Connecticut Architect Eliot Noyes (TIME, June 22). Built around large nylon and rubber bubbles, reinforced with wire and then sprayed with two coats of concrete (called shot crete), the houses can withstand winds of 125 m.p.h., are sealed against the hordes of insects found in warm climates. Inside, partitions reach up just to the curve of the ceiling; only the bathroom is enclosed, with Fiberglas. The four-room, two-bedroom houses are expected to sell for around $6,500 when the houses...
...trio disclosed that the meteor particles must be either very heat resistant or very young in order to withstand an intense heat of nearly 1500 degrees Fahrenheit when they pass within 5,500,000 miles...
Simple Sticker. Chrysler Corp. announced a new industrial cement that needs only fingertip pressure to stick two surfaces together, but is strong enough after hardening to withstand pressures up to 10,000 Ibs. per square inch. Replacing adhesives that are applied with heavy pressure or heat, the cement is used by Chrysler to join brake linings to shoes...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...
...every fall more than three hundred students file into Philosophy la fully prepared to withstand the tirades of a lecturer as dogmatic as the philosophers he treats. Each spring they file out wondering how Demos, in a simple, straightforward way, has managed to interest them in "philosophy from Plato through James." Intentionally or not, Demos seems to have learned a lesson in humble erudition from Socrates, the "intellectual midwife...