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...began experimenting with his shell structures and landed his first big commission, the Cosmic Ray Pavilion in University City. Since then his umbrellas and shells have popped up everywhere-as factories, housing projects, private homes, chapels or as shelters for the marketplace. The basic shell forms are only an inch or two thick, but they can be modified, tipped, inverted, varied almost indefinitely. In earlier days, Candela seemed to accomplish this feat of engineering almost by intuition; he gave the impression of looking down on those who mathematically calculated and recalculated stress. Today Candela checks his designs with the help...
...shifty cut-and-shoot halfback on A. & M.'s football team, Robert Hayes, 20, runs the 100 as if he were cracking an enemy line: head bobbing, shoulders rolling, so pigeon-toed that he often steps on his own feet-a painful experience when he is wearing half-inch-long track spikes. "Starts are my weakness," Hayes said before last week's A.A.U. championships in St. Louis. "I don't get my top speed until I've gone 60 yds. But if I ever get a good start, I'll break a record...
Government buyers, insistent on the nearest thing to perfection in space components, have been the prime driving force behind industry's growing interest in nondestructive testing. Ever since loose solder balls of only a thousandth of an inch in diameter were found inside transistors in the Polaris missile, the Air Force has insisted that all the transistors in missile components be Xrayed. Companies have discovered that "preventive" testing produces safer and more efficient products, and also cuts costs by making it easier to detect and correct flaws. Manufacturers of machinery and airframes spend 13% of their production costs...
Illumination soft as starshine can be focused on one end of a six-inch glass tube, where it knocks electrons loose from a photosensitive layer of cesium and antimony. The free electrons are whisked to the opposite end of the tube by powerful electrostatic charges and they hit the far wall with considerable energy. The collisions build a picture on a phosphorescent screen, a picture that is 1,000 times brighter than the original. Picked up by a TV camera and projected on a TV picture tube, the scene can be brightened still more...
...Taylor, she does her dead-level best to portray the most woman in world history. To look at, she is every inch "a morsel for a monarch." Indeed, her 50 gorgeous costumes are designed to suggest that she is a couple of morsels for a monarch. But the "infinite variety" of the superb Egyptian is beyond her, and when she plays Cleopatra as a political animal she screeches like a ward heeler's wife at a block party...