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...White House announced that Sir Winston Churchill will make an "informal" U.S. visit with Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower next month. The trip was postponed a year ago after Sir Winston came down with pneumonia. Earlier last week Cigar Chomper Churchill, about to fly home to England from the French Riviera, jauntily puffed on a cigarette, a rare indulgence for him, but he was back on big black stogies by the time he reached London Airport...
...aura of age in Actor Holbrook's manner heightens what is ageless in Mark Twain's humor. Lighting a cigar with a furious putt-putt-putt, Holbrook spaces the tagline of a tall story from an afterthought that howlingly tops it. His performance is as pungently authoritative as the smoke from Twain's omnipresent cigar-a cigar that Actor Holbrook flourishes like a wand over two hours of delightfully recaptured Americana...
...present heir fairly apparent is a great advocate of free enterprise within certain limits set by the state, such as anti-cartel policy. He popularized his Social-Market Economy, a synthesis of welfare coverage and a high degree of freedom for German businesses. Erhard's stocky form and cigar seem almost symbolic of the sucess which rewarded West German reconstruction efforts...
Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower. To the Pacific Express, already a hundred miles out, sparked a cryptic radio message: return to base. At first the pilot protested, but Tachikawa transmitted an unmilitary postscript: "You'd better do it, sir, or the general says he will have your plane brought back under air escort...
...mathematical analysis, the neutrons bounced off the atoms' electrons in patterns that indicate that the atoms have varying shapes. The nuclei of iron atoms are surrounded by a cloud of electrons in almost the classic shape of a globe. But the electrons of nickel and cobalt atoms form cigar-shaped lobes around the nucleus, so that the whole atom looks like a sphere with blisters. Significance of Dr. Freeman's news is that the shapes formed by the electrons may provide an explanation for magnetism, which seems to be caused by "uncoupled" electrons that travel independently as they...