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Architectural Beacon...
...easy manner and quick intelligence were winning friends all across the state. In his campaign for attorney general, Brooke ran hard-"like a Democrat," state politicians admiringly admitted-was often up to handshake at factory gates by 5:30 a.m., won support from Boston bankers and Beacon Hill matrons...
Diagnosis. Telstar, which had no spare transponder, was in much more serious trouble. But its case was not hopeless. Its radio beacon was transmitting normally; so were the host of instruments that report by telemetry on its internal condition. They showed that Telstar's solar cells were generating plenty of electricity. Its temperature was normal, and no intruder, such as a meteorite, had damaged its delicate nervous system. Apparently the only trouble was in the command decoders. Telstar was ablebodied, but without working decoders it could not hear and obey commands...
...Shape So Shapely. Today, no fad any more but an established part of winter life, stretch tights are everywhere: a book-loaded matron trudged up snowy Beacon Hill in Boston last week, a veritable bulk of muskrat coat and red tights; Los Angeles ladies strolled down Wilshire Boulevard topped in sunglasses and bottomed in tights; and across the country, suburbanites in colored tights wheeled through supermarkets with daughters swinging similarly bestockinged legs out of shopping carts. Because stretch tights have a way of making almost any shape look more shapely, because they are as warming as the hottest toddy...
What Didn't Exist. He is indeed important in Boston, and he began being so in 1928, when he flabbergasted Beacon Hill by marrying the rich (in shipping) and prominent Martha Codman. Among the things the two had in common was an admiration for the Codman heirlooms, mostly Early American furniture. The furniture led Karolik to a taste for American art of the 19th century-a period that, except for its folk art, other collectors were studiously ignoring...