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...17th century a French consul dug down into the dunes, sent hundreds of ornate columns to Louis XIV. At the start of the 19th century an English sea captain sent home a second load of marble loot. It now ornaments the grounds at Windsor Castle. The winds blew and the dunes again covered what was left, until digging began in earnest in modern times...
...king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...
...beat, where he is the most widely known reporter from "outside."' Within the last year Ogle has gone north of the Arctic Circle three times. This time he missed one of his planned stops, reported: "I had no luck getting into Tuktoyaktuk. I hired a seaplane, but storms blew ice into the bay so that no landing was possible. I finally landed ten miles out in the Arctic Ocean, then was unable to get ashore when the canoe coming out to get me was swamped in heavy seas." In his richly detailed file on "The Great Tomorrow Country." Reporter...
Last week the tuneless terror blew into Hollywood with a $35,000, ten-week contract to make his first movie, Hound Dog Man. In the tradition of his trade, screaming hordes of bobby-soxers were on hand to greet him at the airport (where they broke a car window and almost put out one of his eyes) and at a concert in the Hollywood Palladium. All of this leaves Bob Marcucci, 29, feeling like a waxworks Pygmalion, but without worries about the future. When Fabian grows old-18 or 19, that is-he will still have the movies...
Much of the early progress in rocketry came from inspired amateurs who sometimes blew themselves up-along with an occasional bystander-in the interests of science. But now the professional descendants of the pioneers think the day of the amateur is over, are appalled at the risky stunts of rocket buffs from 16 to 60. So serious is the situation that the American Rocket Society has issued a 76-page booklet cataloguing the dangers and advising the amateurs to stop. Said A.R.S.: "All practical means must be taken to prevent the manufacture of propellants or rockets by amateurs...