Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cool, early hours one morning last week, two cars pulled up to a little-used gate at the Duc de Luynes's 8,000-acre estate near Paris. A few blows of a hammer knocked away the rusty padlock; shadowy figures slipped inside, made a beeline for a cellar window in the 17th century château, got it open, and climbed through...
...ridges, a good glider pilot can soar for hours, executing elongated figure-eights above the ridge's windward slope. He can travel for hundreds of miles, using the character of clouds and of the ground below as his guide to finding the hot radiated updrafts and avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves of air that oscillate in the lee of California's High Sierra (TIME, Oct. 1) U.S. pilots in pressurized gliders have climbed to 42,100 ft.; over California's Coast Range they have stayed aloft...
...Motors announced an automobile air-conditioning unit as optional equipment for 1953 Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. The small unit will be installed in the luggage compartment, pump cold air into the car through a grill behind the rear seat. In temperatures up to 110°, said G.M., the unit will cool a car to "comfort." Price: about...
...potion seems to stymie both girls. It keeps Basil too cool toward Deborra to consummate his marriage and not warm enough toward Helena to make more than a mental pass at her throughout the book. But it does help Basil get his work done. He rattles around the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Antioch to Rome in order to see saints and apostles like Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul, and etch their images on the chalice. These holy men wear their hair and their platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce...
...Cool Profit. In Levittown, N.Y., nine-year-old Russell Green stocked up his family's home freezer last winter, waited until the temperature reached 96° to advertise: "For Sale: Genuine Snowballs...