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...above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
Will farms ever move indoors? If the world's burgeoning population runs short of food, they may have to, and crops may be harvested in great windowless greenhouses, shut off from natural light. Scientists from Sylvania Electric Products Inc. are already preparing a substitute sun. Last week their laboratory at Danvers, Mass., was lit by a new fluorescent tube, its spectrum trimmed to a lavender glow that to plants is the light of life...
...connection with your excellent Le Corbusier coverage, you might like to know that "Corbu" was deeply influenced by the unusual white, windowless, thick-walled folk architecture of the tiny Mediterranean island of Mykonos...
...know that I have never built anything worthwhile," exclaimed Le Corbusier when, in the early 1930s, he was first confronted with these extraordinary churches, with their rounded, curving walls that follow the turning of the roads, their thick, often windowless outer shells looking like the ramparts of an ancient fortification, their arches spanning across narrow alleyways, and topped with strange pigeon-coop bell towers...
...jetliners to be in service by 1975. The planes will carry 100 to 130 passengers, have a crew of six, and be able to land and take off from most runways now used by subsonic jets. Except for tough, heat-resistant windshields in the cockpit, they will be windowless to give the fuselage greater strength. The passengers will see the outside by television...