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Trees and Clouds. All of which, to round-homers, is like discussing Chartres in terms of beam load. They speak lyrically of the feeling of spaciousness, of an almost mystical airiness induced by living under a skylight. A Los Angeles dome-ophile, sounding like Gerard Manley Hopkins, talks of skylights filled with "towering trees and billowing clouds dashed with birds in flight." Ken Niboli, a California real estate broker who lives and works in separate domes, puts the case even more compellingly. "I feel," he says, "like I'm always on vacation...
Frances H. Sweeney, Radcliffe dining hall manager, said yesterday she doubts Sergienko's claims and added that though his work load increased, "it may not be our fault...
...would hear a short cry and then sudden silence," he said. "I think they were being strangled and then had their heads smashed. Next day the floors of rooms C and D-the elimination chambers -were littered with loose eyes and teeth . . . I was forced to load battered bodies of my cellmates into lorries...
...forces work. It is estimated that nearly half the available foreign exchange goes for military supplies or for tax-free luxuries from Europe to pacify the military. Uganda Airlines (consisting mainly of one Boeing 707 and one Hercules C130) makes regular runs to London's Gatwick Airport to load up on whisky, radios, recorders, cars and other goods for the officers of the 21,000-strong army...
...earth, land and fly again was flight-tested-but not alone. As 10,000 people watched, the U.S. space-shuttle orbiter Enterprise soared off a runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, while locked tenaciously atop a huge and expensively modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The combined load of 293 tons (72 of them in the 122-ft.-long Enterprise] not only rose smoothly ("No tail shake at all," reported 747 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton Jr.) but maneuvered as gracefully as two such ponderous mating birds could. The vital 2-hr. 5-min. test was declared a complete success...