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...wish of both, the occasion was attended by a minimum of ceremony, and an absence of cameras. But the meeting marked the end of 400 years of church history. Four centuries ago that great, roaring barrel of a man, King Henry VIII of England, decided to end his marriage with his Spanish queen. He was confident of support from Rome, where he had already been hailed as "Defender of the Faith" for his writings against the protestantism of Martin Luther, but Pope Clement VII refused an annulment. On this issue of supremacy, Henry VIII defied the Church of Rome...
...quite a year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous...
...damage done to the two houses in which they stayed. In view of this ungentlemanly conduct, the Faculty committee has labeled the club unfit to represent the University. The Administration's position is understandable, but it should not take the form of throwing out the whole barrel because of a few bad apples...
...swashing across the decks of the Bounty, or boxing with Spencer Tracy in San Francisco, or pouring the carafe of water over the Big Boss's head in The Hucksters. He often pioneered shock scenes. In Red Dust (1932) he discovered Jean Harlow bathing in a rain barrel, and in It Happened One Night (1934) he shared a tourist cabin with Claudette Colbert, their beds divided by a blanket stretched on a rope. In the same picture, when he took off his shirt and revealed nothing but a glossy chest, he touched off a crisis among undershirt manufacturers...
...fourth volume of Mao Tse-tung's selected works to print an "introduction"' by General Fu Chung, in which the general pointedly quoted old Mao dicta on war and peace and, inferentially, challenged Khrushchev's favorite doctrine of peaceful coexistence. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," quoted Fu. "Politics is war that sheds no blood while war is bloodshedding politics." Against the fearful power of nuclear arms, Fu spoke for the masters of 670 million Chinese: "It is man who is the leading and decisive factor. Though atom bombs have huge and destructive...