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...days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...Absolute Prerogative." In 1956 the union tackled South Carolina's Darlington Manufacturing Co., one of 27 mills and 17 companies making up a combine called Deering Milliken & Co. Manhattan Textileman Roger Milliken argued bitterly that union wages would sink Darlington, which he said was already in the red. By a margin of six votes, the union won the right to represent Darlington's 550 workers. Milliken immediately closed the plant, a move that depressed the town (pop. 7,000) and crippled the union's entire Southern campaign. Textile manufacturers festooned the region with bumper stickers that warned...
...targets of opportunity instead of limiting their attacks to targets chosen in Washington. They were quick to exercise their new option. In one raid, eight F-105 Thunderchiefs found a break in the clouds over a radar site at Vinhson, swooped down to destroy it, then turned to sink three armed junks nearby...
...prefer it. A spacecraft that descends too fast will hit the ground with little more impact than if it hits water. And survival on solid ground is a lesser problem than after a water landing. There is no chance that the men will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with dangerous waves, as they do the sea, and if the spacecraft drops into an unscheduled spot, there are generally at least a few local people to report its descent and help the crewmen. Perhaps the greatest advantage...
...nights "ashore," while another medic took over; but the four volunteers, aged 17 to 19, have had no break in their routine. Though the room is painted the restful apple green of hospital corridors, it has no windows. Despite its homey appurtenances which include pictures of girl friends, a sink, stove, refrigerator, TV and toilet, and its efficient air conditioning, it offers no privacy. In the middle of the floor stands the maypole-like axis around which the chamber rotates...