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Revolution at Harvard. Noyes first started thinking about bubbles last fall when he learned about Manhattan's Airform International Construction Corp. and its bubble houses-large, plastic balloons reinforced with wire mesh and sprayed with concrete, then deflated to leave a concrete shell. A few such houses were built in the U.S., Latin America, Africa and Pakistan, but they were bulky, unattractive affairs. Noyes asked Airform to let him take a crack at redesigning the concrete igloo...
...Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under the plastic waterproof of the West...
...Cataract victims who have had the lens removed from the eye can be given near-normal vision with contact lenses, which may be of plastic, two Manhattan specialists said. Two others, from Philadelphia's Wills Eye Hospital, reported success in 14 of the first 18 U.S. cases of cataract treated by slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball itself (TIME...
...thrown on the same screen by two projectors. In front of one projector is a Polaroid filter that passes light with its waves vibrating, for example, vertically. In front of the other is a filter that passes light with horizontal vibrations. The viewers get glasses with lenses of Polaroid plastic. One lens passes light from the screen that is polarized vertically. The other passes light polarized horizontally. Thus each eye sees only one of the pictures. Since each eye sees the scene from a slightly different angle, as in natural binocular vision, objects appear to have definite distance...
...London glowed with color and excitement. The official coronation decorations, designed by Sir Hugh Casson (architect of the Festival of Britain), were conceived with two objects in mind-to be regal (for the solemn occasion), yet gay (for the youth of the new Queen). Tiny roses glowed with plastic radiance from lampposts along St. James's, huge plumed brass helmets gave swagger to others in old Piccadilly, and the famed statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus was encased in a huge, airy golden cage topped by a crown. There was even a mechanical nightingale in Berkeley Square (they tried...