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...princess. As Liesbeth reported in her school paper: "One of us said, 'Of course you always managed to keep that unbeatable smile,' but the princess answered with a gesture like 'Sometimes I would like to wring their necks.' " Beatrix steamed on, describing a recent beam-and-wave tour: "There they stood, the little scoundrels. Their fists were clenched to throw sacks of confetti right in our faces-hard. The same with the flowers. And then you see the little faces of the kids, with their really mean expressions." Some people thought that was a rather mean...
...Dodgson drawings, though worlds away from the expert expressiveness of the famous illustrations by Tenniel, have a charm all their own. They summon an image of dear Dodgson as he sat back, pen in hand and collar askew, to beam at this lucky squiggle or that eager splodge and imagine how Alice would soon stare at it with huge believing eyes. The later Alice is a work of literature; the earlier a work of love...
...Smells. Packing executives last week were urged to look even further by Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, president of the National Academy of Engineering. Said Kinzel: "Get away from the idea that a steak is a steak is just a steak.' He suggested that a laser beam instead of a knife be used to cut meat with tissue-thin precision and that special blades patterned after the cryogenic needles now used in brain surgery be used to cut and cauterize at the same time. He believes that superhot temperatures can be employed to create new meat textures. Chemicals could also...
...videcon tube, much like a standard TV camera tube, "sees" the picture or other photographable object. The tube stores the image in the form of a pattern of varying intensities of light and dark. This pattern is then scanned by an electron beam, which registers the value of the light intensities, from white to grey to black. The electronic signal is next transmitted by radio or ordinary telephone line to a receiving screen...
...level bombing in bad weather is a deadly job. The same radar used to find targets can help a plane to navigate safely past hills or mountains, but it may also alert defenders equipped to pick up its blips. Navigation with the help of ground-based radio-beam transmitters can rarely be counted on over enemy territory. What pilots need is a system that will lead them along their chosen route without signaling their presence to enemy trackers...