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...better knowledge of the sun is vitally important. Solar astronomers at 126 stations around the turning earth have been watching the sun 24 hours a day. To catch its important ultraviolet and X rays, which do not penetrate to the surface, balloons soar high in the air and rockets climb to the top of the atmosphere on a regular schedule. Special instruments watch the sun's glowing outer corona, which may extend as a tenuous gas all the way to the earth...
...long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail train worn by Marlene Dietrich, both designed by Maximilian. Other creations...
Another symbol was the President of the U.S. in his courageous struggle, after three major illnesses, to climb not merely back to normalcy but to the surpassing heights required by the new day. Yet the magic seemed gone from the old reassurances, the rallying of forces, the bipartisan gathering of legislative leaders, the hurry-up new plans for NATO. These may once have been answers; now they were only parts of answers...
...father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back in to make more and more of the decisions; he will remain as a director and substantial stockholder. Now facing the elder Riss...
Wallace stated that he saw the prowler climb up to the third floor, pause, and hurry down when he found the door locked. He described him as being about 18 years old, with a leather jacket and an Elvis Presley hair...