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...spectrum at the edge of the earth's atmosphere (354,200 ft.), recently set a new speed record of 4,260 m.p.h., or 6.33 times the speed of sound. Last week the once all-black plane sported a white paint job covering new ablative material purposely designed to char in flight as the aircraft engages in tests that should push its maximum speed to a blistering Mach 8 by 1969. Snugged under its wings, the X-15 now carries twin, droppable tanks loaded with additional fuel needed to achieve such speed...
...Lohan resigned and the press was once more unanimous in its censure of Wilson. "I cannot recall ever seeing such a wholehearted condemnation of a Prime Minister's action," said second-ranking Tory Reginald Maudling. "Mr. Wilson certainly asked for it. It is one of his more unlovable char acteristics that he is never prepared to admit he is wrong...
...plot predictably unreels more like a score card than a scenario. Among the standard items is the eager middle-aged nymph (Shelley Winters) who entertains Alfie in a big bath tub. One of the more pathetic entries is the hen-shaped wife of a sick friend-they take char together, and then Alfie makes a grab at the old girl, just to "round off the tea nicely." And then there is the nubile nurse (Shirley Anne Field)-while Alfie is recuperating from overexertion in a TB sanatorium, she comes round every night with "something to put you to sleep...
Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...
...left were taken by Mike Smith, who, fortunately, hadn't quite made it to the subway when the lights went out. He walked across Manhattan to the Hudson Tube station and along the way shot the candlelit lobby of the Sheraton-Atlantic Hotel and-one of the char acteristic scenes of the evening-a girl in the Tube station making a telephone call by candlelight...