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...precisely shaped central cavity and eats its way outward. An air bubble allows part of the flame to get ahead of the rest. The result is a "hot spot" that burns a hole in the rocket's metal casing before all its fuel is consumed, causing a disastrous blowout. To eliminate such a mishap, each booster is taken to a fenced-off area blazoned with signs warning against radiation. There it is wrapped in X-ray film, and a speck of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60 is thrust into its cavity. When the films are developed, they show...
Detroit society was bracing itself for the most glittering, opulent blowout in the city's history. Four days before Christmas, Car Czar Henry Ford II and wife Anne will play host to some 1,000 guests at the Country Club of Detroit, which will be extensively redecorated, just for the evening, to provide proper dash and elegance for a ball whose theme will be 18th century French. Occasion: the coming-out of their daughter, Debutante Charlotte Ford, 18. The guest roster is a Who's-Really-Who of U.S. business, upper-crust society and showfolk, with a suitable...
...socialite Republican family (the late Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
Last week's blowout was all the more remarkable for the fact that, in a career of aisle-sitting that began 33 years ago, Justin Brooks Atkinson has made few acquaintances in the theater for fear of compromising his integrity. (He met Katharine Cornell and Thornton Wilder for the first time at his party.) A demanding but undogmatic critic, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated ('17) Atkinson writes his views in pencil in a neat hand on a ruled yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after...
With those details accomplished, Frank McMahon, 55, went on to the business at hand. From Texas and Montreal, from London and Manhattan, McMahon had invited some 400 bankers, oilmen, businessmen and their wives to a razzle-dazzle two-day blowout in celebration of the link-up of his Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. pipeline to the U.S. Northwest. Chartering five four-engine aircraft (at a cost of $13,000 each), McMahon got the wingding off in high gear by serving cocktails with breakfast on the flight to Fort St. John. There the guests were provided with more clothing-350 pairs...