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...Readers Dietrich & Deutsch take a longer look at the diagram. The arrow shows the direction of the rocket's flight to Venus, not the direction of the takeoff. Since the earth moves 18.5 m.p.s. and the rocket is fired in the opposite direction at 8 m.p.s., the net speed of the rocket is 10.5 m.p.s. in the direction of the earth's motion...
Dean of the old-auto set is Edgar O. Appleby '47, who has disposed of six or seven collector's items about the square and is currently featuring a 1925 Pierce Arrow whose durability is amazing. While owners of GM, Chrysler postwar creations can have little idea of their cars' staying powers, the Pierce's lucky purchaser knows in advance that it was built for endurance...
...smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden...
Early one morning last week Canute Linerio, a Solemn Indian of 46, set out again for Mexico City to look for work. Leaving his wife Margarita and two children, José, 10, and Consuelo, 13, in their tiny casita on the outskirts of Toluca, Canute boarded the Red Arrow bus, paid 31? fare to ride in to the capital. There, as he had done before, he read the "advices of opportunity" in the newspapers, spelling each word out slowly to himself...
Famous vacation trains, like the Cornish Riviera Express (nonstop London to Plymouth) and the Golden Arrow (London to Dover and Paris), were running again. Ex-R.A.F. pilots swarmed into the air-taxi business and got as much as ?50 ($200) for a flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government...