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Chemist S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works explained that the strange "photochromic" glass, which he had invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from...
Athletes use a variety of bars, braces and frames that can be adjusted to just the right inch or angle to strengthen a muscle for a particular job (one high jumper successfully trained by straining against a device that held his take-off leg at the exact angle from which it started its spring). The Green Bay Packers were one of the first major pro football teams to adopt isometrics, and some credit the exercises for their brilliant seasons in 1961 and 1962, after which other teams caught on-and caught up. "It's the greatest thing the world...
...built-in hydraulic jacks. It supports itself on the building's side or on a tower that runs up inside what will later become an elevator shaft. Its counterbalanced boom can deftly pinpoint a load anywhere on the construction floor, whereas crawlers, operating from street level, can only inch a load to the edge of the floor. And the tower's heights are unlimited, while the crawler can rise no higher than 35 stories without danger of toppling. At job's end, the contractor simply disassembles the tower crane and lowers the parts to the ground...
Speaking of women, the ladies in the balcony who go to see whether Doris Day Will should find this film adequate. Elke Sommer plays Doris' part in much the same way--minus a half inch of pancake makeup and plus a few inches elsewhere...
...yield. He hit upon the idea that the paint could be the image, not just serve as its representative. He rejected the notion that paintings should have visual climaxes that smack the eye-such as a Mona Lisa in the midst of a landscape -and instead made every square inch of his big works bear up under an equal pressure of paint...