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...only two: resistance to compression and to tension stresses ... In all architecture before our time, only the compression strength of materials was taken into consideration. Rocks like granite and basalt were the strongest, and great feats were performed with marble, limestone, sandstone, travertine, and even with manmade stones-burnt brick and mass concrete . . . The builders who used the arch . . . merely carried the use of materials in compression to its ultimate capability...
...thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next to the weathered greys, faded beiges and crumbling burnt oranges of past glories stand refurbished or new buildings glinting with fresh paint, new chrome and stucco. Cassino has risen from the bombers' rubble, a gleaming, modern town, with its famed monastery restored. In Eboli, where Christ stopped (in Carlo Levi's novel), six spanking new apartment houses...
Eisenhower reasons that if Russia will make no preconference concessions, the talks will fall through. He and his advisors, convinced American diplomats got their fingers burnt at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, are afraid they will be bested again. This is hardly the kind of "new, daring foreign policy" he promised the electorate. There is no reason for our diplomats to have this inferiority complex, and as long as they keep it, our cold war position will be weakened...
...next month and a half, resourceful Pilot Ruckman and his crew worked to get Star Dust back into the air. Working under intermittent fire from German snipers and artillery, they repaired two of the plane's engines with tools they had found in burnt-out machine shops. Bribing military police to look the other way, they salvaged an engine and a wheel from another downed...