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...camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear as a bluish, starlike object of the 13th magnitude (visible with a 6-in. telescope...
...appears abed with a dark-skinned trollop, throws a shiv after her as she dresses and steals away. Modesty's archfoe is Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), a faggoty Edwardian fop who flounces around an op-art seaside castle that looks rather like marzipan. Under a lavender parasol, he sips bluish liquids from a huge goblet with a goldfish swimming in its depths, keeps languorous boys and a sadistic lady psychopath on the premises. "I am the villain of the piece, and I have to condemn you to death," he purrs to Modesty. To which she purrs back...
...dedicated to evil rather than good deeds. Fantomas steals diamonds from Van Cleef & Arpels, hijacks a gambling casino, terrorizes Paris and kidnaps blondes, all the while disguised as several law-abiding characters by means of "the most perfect artificial skin." Beneath the masks lurks another mask, a bluish-grey rubbery face girdle that gives him the fiendish aspect of a dirty Mr. Clean...
...derrick, bought hastily after Sputnik (the night before Kurt H. Debus, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, had described details of Shepard's launch: "We had a man in a block-house watching the color of the flame, about 150 feet away. If it looked too bluish, or whatever, he was supposed to press a little button next...
...Salmo family. It starts out life as a plain old rainbow trout. But then, for some curious reason that nobody has ever figured out, it suddenly gets itchy fins and migrates from its fresh-water birthplace down the rivers and out to sea. Its color changes from a bluish hue to steely silver (hence its name), its quarter-sized spots shrink to freckles, and it grows enormous for a trout: an average steelhead weighs 8 Ibs. (v. 1½ Ibs. for a rainbow), and big ones run 30 Ibs. or more...