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...asthma and high blood pressure to keep him from his order's austere regimen. His day begins at 5:30 a.m., with Mass, meditation and thanksgiving (by the rule of St. Ignatius, every Jesuit must spend four hours a day in prayer). By 9:15, with his iron bedstead curtained off, he transforms his bedroom into a study and tackles the day's work, sitting on a straight-backed chair behind a large wooden desk (another straight-backed chair for visitors and three shelves of books complete the office furnishings...
...airfield's best runway. "I think she could have done better," he grinned, "but the runway isn't quite long enough." At the auto club's Amman garage, Hussein spent days helping mount a Cadillac engine in a racing car chassis. "We call it the flying bedstead," he told a friend. After the British colonel commanding the Royal Jordanian air force taught him to fly, Amman learned to listen for the afternoon roar of the King's Vampire jet buzzing his mother's palace on his way back from a high altitude joy ride...
Bell's new craft uses the same lift principle as Britain's new "Flying Bedstead," of which the Ministry of Supply released the first picture last week (see cut). The Bedstead has two engines, mounted end-to-end, with right-angle exhaust pipes to shoot the jet blast downward, thus cause the Bedstead to rise. From a seat on top, the pilot steadies and controls the contraption by shooting compressed air through nozzles mounted on outriggers. When the Bedstead is tilted forward, the jet stream thrusts it ahead. Similarly, pulling the nose up causes the jets to drive...
...astonishingly good. Both Satins and Spurs and You're So Right for Me may be sounding from radio and jukeboxes for some time to come. Betty Button's most infectious number was a novelty called Wildcat Smathers that featured a rodeo dance on a trampoline-like bedstead in her dressing room...
Honeyed Goddess. Last month Digger Sestieri hit real pay dirt. His workers broke into Paestum's "sacred precinct," surrounded by a wall of massive square boulders. Inside they found a small, hut-shaped temple. The interior walls were of stucco; on the floor were a rust-corroded iron bedstead and a set of ornate, gilded bronze water jars. Each jar, decorated with figures of female heads, sphinxes, rams and serpents, was filled with an amber-colored, resinlike substance: solidified honey. Presumably distilled from the nectar of Paestum's famed roses, the 2,500-year-old honey...