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...night sky is never completely black. Even when the moon is down, the stars and nebulae give off some light. And that small glow is equalled by a chilly, luminous layer far out in space which surrounds the earth like a diaphanous green veil...
...outbreaks of office thievery, highlighting the petty-crime wave that has been plaguing office buildings from coast to coast. It would seem that few targets appear more attractive than a big-city tower of commerce: lots of victims, lots of loot, with floor after anonymous floor piled up like layer cake. Trouble is, a hard-working secretary too often finds her take-home pay going home in somebody else's pocket...
Simply structured around a single incident--the divorce hearing of the Baroness and the incidental battle for custody of the child--the play uncovers one rotten layer after another in the married life of the people, as the wife and husband chase each other in an increasingly vicious circle of accusations...
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...
...roofing over the ravine, letting its top side serve as a landscaped park bridging the two universities. Subsurface, the project resembles a sort of upside-down layer cake. It will provide some 10 million sq. ft. of usable space to house no fewer than three theaters, an extension of the Carnegie Art Museum, an instrumentation center, and a computer and data bank, all of which will permit research employees to find work, recreation, culture and education within walking distance of one another. The railroad tracks will remain where they are, but they will be spanned by huge arches that will...